🙅♂️ Life is No
"No" is an essential word, and we say it implicitly more often than we think. That's a very good thing.
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identity
A collection of 14 issues
⏩︎ Life is (Too) Fast
In world where things move ever faster, intentional slowness helps get more done and deepens appreciation for the world swirling around us.
🎙️ (Un)productive Hobbies
The arc of my life, in terms of productivity, is a strange one. I think I've been missing something along the way.
A comfortable upbringing found me apathetic, happy enough with average grades and better than average friendships that I felt little ambition to really try.
Then I
❓The Questions Themselves
Answers. We spend our lives in search of them. We are desperate for them, so desperate that we embrace slipshod shortcuts that allow us to circumvent the work we ought to put in to arrive at those answers. To cut right through it and get to the end as fast
📍Where You Are
Let's start with a confession:
Sometimes my best inspiration stems from Reddit.
Take the Warrior-Scholar's Field Guide, for example. This is the grounding document for our college success curriculum at Warrior-Scholar Project boot camps. One section of the guide opens with the following quotes:
“Pavlov probably
⇒ (Moving) Forward
Hi!
I've been gone for a bit. The reasons are both simple and complex.
I'm coming back here in really the only way I know how: a post reflecting on major life events that eschews best practices for search engine optimization in favor of organically sharing
📖 21 Lessons From My Father
When I was 21, my father called me.
"Listen, Ryan," he began, using his signature line to transition from small talk to the real reason for any given conversation. "Enjoy this period of life. You'll never have another like it."
I heard him, at
🔋 Finding Weird, Part 3 - The Bridge
Fear, then strength…then what?
We are at our best when we are ourselves. Our strange, unique, goofy selves. Believe that, and you will be better for it. This is my core contention.
In part one of this series, we talked about revealing and acknowledging fears — those insidious things that
🔋 Finding Weird, Part 2 - Strength
Let's keep getting weird, eh?
We all bring something different to the table. My contention is that the sooner we identify and lean into those differentiators, the sooner we can move towards fulfillment. Our weirdness is, to use a phrase I’m fond of, the good stuff.
Last
🔋 Embracing Weird, Part 1 - Fear
Let's get a little weird, eh?
One of the first posts I wrote in the recent incarnation of this blog was about finding your maximum and unique value. I think about that concept a lot. A less delicate way to describe it would be to ask: "What