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How Fiction Can Inspire an Extraordinary Life

Use fiction to motivate your hero’s journey....

25 August, 2022 / 0 Comments
Focus On Your Practice & Forget About the Rest

You have everything you need to make magic. Inspired by The Practice, by Seth Godin...

31 January, 2022 / 0 Comments
How to Thrive In the Unknown

My January 7th newsletter with lessons from Keats, T. S. Eliot, and my stepmom ...

08 January, 2022 / 0 Comments
Become Who You Are by Learning Who You Are

And life will be nothing short of a fucking adventure — lessons on finding your purpose from the lives of history’s great masters....

08 January, 2022 / 0 Comments
26 Books That Have Shaped My 26 Years on Planet Earth

Over the last few years since I graduated from college, I’ve read or listened to around 175 books. While I loved many, these 26 books changed my life....

09 December, 2021 / 0 Comments
The World As It Really Is

Where the trivial is miraculous and every day’s a gift ...

23 August, 2021 / 0 Comments
Must We Always Pick a Side?

What Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther's intertwined tale can teach us about our own, modern perspectives....

08 May, 2021 / 0 Comments
Thoughts on 1Q84, A Modern Dystopian World Where Two Moons Exist

Reading about life in Tokyo’s metropolitan outskirts had me reminiscing on my own experience there. ...

28 April, 2021 / 0 Comments
Find What Makes You Come Alive Before Thinking About Success

Before thinking about success, focus on growing into the truest version of yourself, somebody worthy of the future success you dream of....

13 March, 2021 / 0 Comments
Searching for a Way of Being

In the middle way between chaos and order, we find our reason to live...

10 February, 2021 / 1 Comment
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