“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” -John Maynard Keynes

1: If self-renewal is our goal, the biggest challenge isn’t a lack of time or money.  It’s figuring out where to begin,  Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Tiny Experiments.

We may ask: “Should I … continue reading

“As we mature we progressively narrow the scope and variety of our lives. Of all the interests we might pursue, we settle on a few. Of all the people with whom we might associate, we select a small number. We become caught in a web of fixed relationships. We develop set ways of doing things.” –John W. Gardner

1: Imagine we are going to visit our doctor.

We already … continue reading

1: Our brains are uncomfortable with the in-betweens.

“Imagine, for a moment, that we are traveling alone on a long-leg airline flight with no onboard Wi-Fi,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.

“There we are at 30,000 feet, suspended in the sky, transitioning from one place to another, neither here nor there,” she writes. “The places and people who normally … continue reading