We live in a cultural narrative tending more toward 'lack' and 'not-enough.' This combined with our inherent negativity bias makes it hard to be our own friends. Here's why and...
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Connecting to the texture of our lives seems important. To connect with more than the contents, but the emotion, the detail, the nuance. To reflect, digest and breathe it in....
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Our children will not tell tales of conference calls, meetings, mergers or acquisitions. They will not praise apathetic companies, industrial pollution or the ownership of ‘things’.All that will echo in the...
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Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of...
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can...
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Here's my TEDx talk from last month about a topic that you know is very close to my heart...
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