shifting perspectives

I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work

I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.

- Bill Plotkin

Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more

When you feel like things are hard, your instinct might be to ask “why are things this hard?” Or to curse your luck — but a better question would be “why should things be easy?” Like why are you owed that when the natural state of things is difficulty.

Have you tried inventing and inhabiting a complex character who doesn’t have your problem?