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In the movie Shrek, Shrek tries to explain to Donkey a little about ogres. He says, Ogres are like onions. They have layers...

We will never be perfect, but we can easily be good. You can waste your days chasing perfection, only to see it always out of reach, or you can shoot for good. My ex-wife used to say something that I actually liked. She would say, it only needs to be a 90 percent job. I like that, because getting to 90 percent is pretty darn good, and it's really the last 10 percent There's something I heard on another podcast.

When you die, your name has a shelf life. For some, it's going to be a lot longer than for others. It could be thousands of years before...

To a lesser or greater extent, we all get fixated on things to such a degree that those things can hurt us in the end. Sometimes we're...

My life has benefited incredibly from the practice of journaling. I have found that our mind can only hold so much information at once...

When I was younger and endlessly ambitious, I had grand visions of my future. I used to dream of giant elephants. I imagined the...

If someone were to ask you right now what your values were, would you be able to tell them without having to think very hard about it?

Making it into Hollywood is no small thing. Whether you want to be a singer or an actor or actress, you need to know someone, or already...

I found myself reading an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin recently. Now, I love biographies, especially autobiographies. It makes me...

So, status. It seems like a thing reserved for rich people, but I don't think that really could be any further from the truth. See, the...

So if you were to ask me today, if there was anything that you could do to help me, I would draw a blank. I think we like to help people...

So arguing has this way of making us feel good about ourselves if we, quote, win an argument. It's got this competitive appeal. It's...

I enjoy reading classical literature quite a bit. I don't always have the stamina to read it all the time, but I still have managed to...

So I had this moment last week when I was holding my two year old daughter after she had just woken up from a nap. And when that happens...

So there's this line from a really stupid movie that I watched once upon a time called Buckaroo Banzai. It's this movie, I think it's ...

So I was introduced to this concept of becoming an observer through a book I read about meditation. We have a lot going on in our minds...

When I turned 30, I suddenly became aware of my mortality for the first time. I had finished school, I had a job, I had a family, and I...

We were never meant to be alone. We would never become what we are, alone. So I'm not a huge fan of television, but I watched a show once ca

It's easy to feel insignificant when you consider the fact that we are all just tiny specks moving around on a little blue planet orbiting a

I once had an interview with a company years ago. I was trying to get on with the large commercial property developer. If you do well with t