Fitness of various sorts can come in many forms, and as your idea tries to stand on its hind legs its vital to balance your needs to overcome external pressures with your willingness to experiment with structural modifications.
Read MoreIN DIALOGUE
What fascinates me, and sometimes torments me, is the recognition of all the many different ways I see people create things, ways that sometimes elude me and make me envy their facility.
Read MoreSPELUNKING YOUR ENTERPRISE
The only way to experience the place is to prepare, and the only way to descend after those preparations is to give yourself over to the experience. There is no middle ground if the journey is going to be successful; there is no way to enter the Earth without getting covered in mud.
Read MoreACTING WITHOUT THINKING
The process of successful creation is intangible. I know there is sky above me and I know there is air all around me and I know that the air around me connects directly to the sky above me. Somewhere the two meet, but the dividing line is a fiction of language, a function of our senses being given over to words. There is no dividing line between air and sky, but we describe the expanse of blue overhead as something different than the wind moving leaves on the trees.
Read MoreTHE BIG DISTRACTORS
There are many ways to lose yourself to uselessness. To outwit the demons, tell yourself that your goals matter, and that no matter what they may be whispering in your ear, those demonic distractors really aren’t as interesting in learning how to live intentionally in the first place
Read MoreTHERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN IRRELEVANT JOB
There’s no such thing as a meaningless job if you’re doing something germane to a collective effort.
Read MorePLEASE! NOT "INCREDIBLE"!
By finding more accurate replacements for impotent, overused images, we enhance our ability to understand what each other means.
Read MoreOVERCOMING THE UBIQUITY OF DISTRACTIONS
You’ve got to apply power to the throttle, and you’ve got to start rolling down the runway. This will take fuel; this will make you tired; this will add risks to your day. But once you achieve flight speed, you’ll see the Earth fall away beneath you, and you’ll finally be headed somewhere.
Read MorePREPARATION
Preparation is all about learning how to listen to our senses to figure out what we want to do, and then asking them to step aside for a while so that we can think clearly. Preparation is the difference between practice and improvisation. Preparation is the invisible shield held by pros.
Read MoreEMERGENT PROPERTIES
Emergent properties tend to have deep truths. They bubble up organically, like they were just waiting to be discovered all along. The best way to cultivate their growth is to learn how not to suppress them, how to get out of your own way.
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