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Episode 31: Unanchored People
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?
Nov 7, 20247 min read
Episode 30: Hollywood Tricks Us Into Thinking Crazy People are Normal
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...
Nov 7, 20247 min read
Episode 29: You Pay Too Much for Your Whistle
I found myself reading an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin recently. Now, I love biographies, especially autobiographies. It makes me...
Nov 7, 20246 min read
Episode 28: Trying to Give Up Status
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...
Nov 7, 20249 min read
Episode 27: The Importance of Hello
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...
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Episode 26: Arguing
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...
Nov 7, 20247 min read
Episode 25: What is Enough
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...
Nov 7, 20248 min read
Episode 24: Holding My Daughter
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...
Sep 5, 20248 min read
Episode 23: Wherever You Go, There You Are
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 ...
Aug 30, 20246 min read
Episode 22: Being an Observer
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...
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Episode 21: Getting Old
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...
Aug 19, 20248 min read
Episode 20: We Can't Do It Alone
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
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Episode 19: Historical Context
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
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Episode 18: We Choose Our Identity Until We Find Out Who We Are
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
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Episode 17: Rain Will Make the Flowers Grow
We are made by our hardest moments. Have you ever felt proud over something that was easy for you? I mean, I suppose it's possible to be pro
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Episode 16: If Your Favorite Hero Stood in Your Shoes
We make literally thousands of decisions every day, ranging from where we place our foot as we walk to what we'll have for dinner. Most of o
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Episode 15: People are Not Absolutes
So I love the line from one of the Star Wars prequels. I think, I think this was the Phantom Menace. Oh, actually, no, it was, it was probab
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Episode 14: A Lesson from the Philippines
So I lived in the Philippines for, for a little while. And you know, it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life because I got t
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Episode 13: How Not Why
Do you ever think, why does everything happen to me like this? Why do I have to do this? Why are you doing that? For some reason when
Aug 8, 20246 min read
Episode 12: The Heart and the Head Should be Friends
What in life deserves our time and attention, and what things don't? I hope that as we consider that question, along with other topics on
Aug 8, 20247 min read
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