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As Kelly puts it: "Standard economic growth aims to get consumers to drink more wine. Type 2 growth aims to get them to not drink more wine, but better wine."

Kelly's insight about wine applies perfectly to how we think about personal growth. Just as mindlessly drinking more wine doesn't make us better wine connoisseurs, frantically doing more... See more

The stories our culture tells about creativity almost always concern individuals: think Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Kanye West. These stories are tempting because they are simple, because they appeal to our veneration for individualism, because we love our heroes. We have very few models for storytelling that concern small groups of people, or... See more

It feels amazing to do a hard thing and make it through. What’s worse is to have an easy life and feel nothing at all (the default)

But as I spent the holidays reflecting on this “Robin-to-your-Batman” mindset, I found myself facing a grimier, more menacing realization around why powering their agency has felt so much safer and easier than cultivating and motivating my own.

As I ate leftover Persian food on my mom’s antique couch in LA, listening to her 3 dogs shriek and bark in... See more