What kind of human do I want to be?

While reaching out I found myself. I found my voice. I had the beautiful epiphany we all hope to have at some point, which is that you are responsible for your life. You are responsible for your decisions and opportunities and to a large extent, your luck. Reaching out instilled the belief in me that literally anything could happen if you connect... See more

It's common in Denmark to have lunch at work. You pay a small amount of your salary every month and then you get lunch (and sometimes breakfast) each working day. Everybody eats together and for many people it's the highlight of the day.

You read with your heart first. You're deeply moved by stories that explore intense emotions, complex relationships, and transformative human experiences. You seek out books that allow you to feel deeply, empathize passionately, and experience life's emotional extremes.

Think Like an Immigrant to Survive the Future

His advice: be an outsider, take short-term pain for long-term gain, and embrace a mindset of reinvention and hunger.

We're approaching a moment where the ability to be confused, to be uncertain, to be changed by encounters with complexity will become a form of resistance — resistance to the flattening of human experience, resistance to the compression of meaning, resistance to the optimization of mystery. In a world of instant answers, sustained questioning... See more

the future belongs not to those who can consume information most efficiently, but to those who can engage with complexity most deeply. Not to those who can extract the most key points, but to those who can dwell most fully with irreducible experiences. Not to those who process the most data, but to those who allow themselves to be processed by what... See more