I don’t know exactly how all these seeds will take root or what will emerge from them. And, honestly, I’m okay with that. This season of my life feels like one of unfolding rather than controlling, of stepping forward with openness rather than certainty. What I do know is that I’m here for it—holding my experience with curiosity, embracing the... See more
"So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term."
On failure
Scrolling through Twitter led to more scrolling and then a feeling of emptiness and guilt for wasting time when I finally managed to leave the app — scrolling through Sublime more often than not led me to putting away my phone, getting a breath of fresh air, and getting to work on that passion project I’d put aside years ago.
For most of my life, I’ve kept older men at a distance. More recently, that distance extended to master coaches, teachers, and practitioners—those 10, 20, even 30 years ahead of me. I admired them, but I couldn’t let them in. There was fear in it. Fear of being judged, of not measuring up, of being exposed in ways I couldn’t... See more
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication…In the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about... See more