5-year life plans are useless in a world of causal opacity. Better to prioritise what’s important to you as ‘soon as possible’, start on it, and see where it takes you. For, if it’s so important, why should it wait? Are you building a dam? Some things,...
If you very intentionally avoid what doesn’t interest you, you automatically create space for serendipity, inspiration and fun to emerge. The void is fertile. We cannot force some things We cannot force things like serendipity and inspiration, yet they are at the...
Wisdom tends to come with age because, artful living, like all skills, needs practice. And, practice benefits from time spent navigating different life circumstances. The good news is that you can very intentionally increase the intensity and extent of your practice....
Why do we love animals so much? They are unapologetically and unselfconsciously so utterly themselves — something we humans rarely, if ever, manage. This is true even of dogs, who desperately try to please their masters, having lost their independence through...
Being stuck in sameness can happen in all manner of different areas in life, usually without us ever noticing. It happens when you are constantly and only exposed to the same kind of thing, whether that is food or ideas. So, being stuck in sameness has two properties,...
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