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The Shape of the Stories We Love
Mike Tyson’s life is an archetypal story. His story is one of the three “story shapes” that all human beings love. Each is an archetypal story.
Is it rational? Of course not. But that doesn’t matter. Create a story for yourself that follows one of the three archetypes.
You Don’t Really Know What You Think
…as I write, I think about the role of Beauty in our lives. In fact, I realize now that I’ve been thinking about Beauty for weeks without being fully conscious of it. If I wasn’t journaling, I would have missed what my subconscious is telling me in this moment.
The Best Daily Habit Ever
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. • Richard Feynmann
How to Inoculate Yourself Against a Fatal Attraction
How do we inoculate them against madness? The answer is not discipline. The answer is not education. The answer is not jobs. The answer is “meaning.”
Help People Feel Love – A Coffee Story
I didn’t like Peixoto’s Coffee when I first tried them out. But I heard their story the first time I visited, and I was captivated by it.
Their story was so powerful that I kept coming back.
“…and touched the face of God”
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit...