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This morning I sat down to write about how we can all learn to better use the right hemispheres of our brains. For 30 minutes, I tapped restlessly at a laptop. Nothing much happened, idea-wise. Flat beer.
Finally I resorted to a strategy I call the Kitchen Sink. I read bits of eight books: four accounts of brain research, one novel about India, one study of bat behavior, one biography of Theodore Roosevelt, and one memoir of motherhood. Next I drove to my favorite Rollerblading location, listening en route to a stand-up comic, a mystery novel, and an Eckhart Tolle [...]
This month, perhaps through a series of coincidences, or perhaps through something else, I’ve seen dozens of different people being set free in dozens of different ways. Oh what the hell, I don’t believe for a minute that it’s a coincidence. Something is changing in the collective Zeitgeist, or the “Spirit of the Times.” We are moving into a time when transparency, authenticity and openness (what my coaches call “TAO” or Chinese for “The Way”) is critical. Being transparent, authentic and open is not fool hearty social behavior, but the only safe way to success.
I am beginning to believe that radical openness is [...]
Yes, yes, yes! I am sill working on a book!
Oh, I know I’ve been working on it for years, and I know I keep saying it’s almost done. It is almost done, dammit! But book writing is an incredibly slow process, and I can be “almost finished” for months or (please God no) even years.
The problem is that I keep slowing down the completion of this project by trying to do it faster. Every month, when I stop to write my magazine column, I resentfully toss together a few ideas so I can get back to my book, thus ensuring that the column [...]
We all know that change is occurring more rapidly and dramatically today than it ever has in history. This may be either thrilling or terrifying, depending on the day and how ready we are at any moment to go along with dramatic transformations. For many months, I’ve had the feeling that many of us humans have been milling around like athletes waiting for a marathon to begin. Recently, it feels to me as though we’re all being told to take our position in the starting blocks.
I’m not sure exactly what this means, only that it feels tremendously exciting and somewhat alarming at [...]
Statistically, the most likely time for an American man to die is just before Christmas. For an American woman, doomsday comes just after New Years. My theory about why this is so is that people let themselves off the hook when they finally get a chance for a well-earned rest. Men exhaust themselves in the period leading up to the holidays and then let go; for women, the holidays themselves represent a brutal overload of work. This year, I say we stage a revolution. Let’s turn this holiday into an actual holiday!
Every now and then, I am asked to [...]
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