1: Randall was frustrated.
“Everyone wants to know how I’m doing, if I’m sleeping, and what treatments I’m having,” Diane Button writes in her wonderful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
“Don’t they understand this is the this is the last think in the world I want to talk about?” Randall said.
“I want to talk about life, and love, and how everyone is … continue reading
1: One summer night in Milwaukee, the San Francisco Giants lost to the Brewers in a brutal late-inning collapse.
Bruce Bochy, the team’s manager, found himself sitting alone in his office, brooding over the loss.
Still restless, he decided to walk back to the team’s hotel.
“It was maybe four miles, and it was late, and the Brewers’ stadium is not exactly pedestrian-friendly,” Rustin Dodd writes in his post … continue reading
1: “In an early 2000s study on the impact of meditation,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth, “psychologist Richard Davidson asked Matthieu Ricard to meditate while covered in sensors and wires.”
Matthieu had earned his PhD in cellular genetics before leaving academia to become a Buddhist monk in India.
“Along the way,” Sahil notes, “he worked as a French interpreter for the Dalai Lama… continue reading
1: “John D. Rockefeller was one of the most successful—and ruthless—businessmen in history,”Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
After growing up in humble, unstable circumstances, John built Standard Oil into “a gargantuan conglomerate with immense global reach and outsize influence in all manner of world affairs,” Sahil observes.
To put his wealth into perspective, by … continue reading
Author Oliver Burkeman and his family recently moved from Brooklyn to the North York Moors in northern England.
“Which means that very often in the early mornings, carrying a flask of hot coffee, I get to stroll along a lane with spectacular views across a valley to the heather-topped ridge beyond,” he writes in Meditations for Mortals.
“In winter, the pink light of sunrise pours itself slowly over fields … continue reading
1: Author Oliver Burkeman believes there are two basic orientations towards life.
We can either strive toward sanity.
Alternatively, we can operate from a position of sanity.
“The signature behavior of the striver-towards-sanity is ‘clearing the decks'”, Oliver writes in Meditations for Mortals
The striver-towards-sanity attempts “to deal with all the minor tasks tugging at our attention,” he notes, “in an effort to arrive at the point when we finally … continue reading
1: What are our assumptions about time?
“The ancient Greeks had not one but two words to speak of time,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.
The Greek word Chronos refers to quantity.
“This is largely how most of us in the modern world relate to time,” Anne-Laure writes. “It is the time of clocks and calendars, of productivity tools … continue reading
1: Is there anything specific we can do to experience more love in our lives?
The science tells us the answer is yes.
Yesterday, we looked at how people with high vagal tone experience more love and connection.
The vagus nerve runs from deep within our brain stem down into our heart and other internal organs.
People with higher vagal tone tend to be “more flexible across a whole … continue reading
1: “There’s a little gap, no more than a millisecond, between the moment a thought arises and the moment our brain attaches an emotion to that thought,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
If we are interested in manifesting the grit to control our thoughts, then we are wise to pay attention to that gap.
Because once a feeling is attached to a … continue reading
