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The remarkable thing about words is that they seem to make us smarter without words. We're relatively instinctual creatures. I think of a dog, for example. It gets happy, sad, and angry, but that's about all it can express. It doesn't really have the capacity to show us more nuanced feelings, and of course, a dog is unable to be introspective. People that don't have a lot of words to describe what they feel, get angry or sad or happy, but have limited capacity to comprehen

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 this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Leveling Up.” I was feeling a little overwhelmed the other day, and for the first time in a very long time, I found myself playing a video game. I stayed up until 2:00 AM playing that stupid ga

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 this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Don't Let What You Have Keep You from What You Want.” I wonder sometimes if we're failing in life because we're trying too hard to protect the wrong things. Like is our fixation on avoiding fin

Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in Delphi is the aphorism Know thyself. There are a lot of things worth knowing in this world, but knowing ourselves may be one of the most helpful of them all. It sounds so easy to figure yourself out from the time we are children. We're proud to announce our preferences and our strengths to each other. We all seem to think we know who we are, but in my experience, who we are is never so simple as saying. I like X, Y, Z, or I'm good at ya

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 this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “You Have to Be Afraid.” Fear is the only real adversary we have in life. And in a way, it's the only thing you will ever have to face. But ironically, I think it's also the gateway to paradise.

If you have the luxury of being able to go on a journey of self-discovery in order to find yourself, I think you can count yourself amongst some of the more privileged of the world. For a lot of people, life doesn't really give them any choices of who to be. Finding yourself is irrelevant. When you're too busy staying alive to sit and ponder it.

The modern culture around parenting says we need to have our kids in sports programs, put them in the best schools, take them on nice vacations and dress 'em in really great clothes. But I kind of wonder if we traded in child raising for child worship instead. I can tell you as a father to three kids that I love being a parent, but it isn't always what we make it out to be in our imaginations. It comes with a lot of extra work that no one's going to pay us for. As a parent, I

You know, a surprisingly hard question for me to answer is. What would make for the best day ever? So, the quick answer that comes to mind would have to do with some kind of acquisition. Maybe winning the lottery would be the best day ever. That really sounds pretty nice. I'd love to win the lottery or win a new car or get some incredibly expensive thing handed to me. But when I think about my best days so far, they don't really have much to do with getting new things.

I think the best way to figure out what an ideal day is to ask yourself first, what a terrible day is to start. I think not sleeping enough would make for a pretty terrible day. I'd be agitated, my senses would be dull, and I'd probably be feeling lazy. If I really wanted to have a terrible day, I'd probably put some kind of intense pressure on myself. Maybe there'd be an important deadline that I forgot to prepare for, and I'd be filled with dread.