Thought provoking

Live music is a ritual that evokes a common emotional response to which we attach our singular experiences.

“When I get up in the morning and look in the mirror, I reach the same conclusion every time: that there is only one Morten looking back at me, despite my many different titles. We live only one life, in one time.”

I was struck by what Morten says about us having one ‘indivisible’ life, and the dangers of segmenting our life - and our time - into... See more

Measure your composure every day.

Let's break this down.

There are two important components here:

1.) The distinction of composure , and

2.) Measurement as an improvement mechanism.

Composure is straightforward enough: it’s the extent to which someone is in control of their behavior.

If we get swept away by our emotions or impulses, we have low... See more

I.

"When dreaming, imagine success.

When preparing, imagine failure.

When acting, imagine success."

You wrote that the brain evolved to seek out the “edge of informational chaos” — a place where our predictive models begin to break down, and in those uncertain zones, we actually have much to learn.

Art and morals are... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Decades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”