"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as y

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” — Seneca

You cannot process thoughts or develop perspective while endlessly consuming content, so periodically disconnect from the web, dwell some days in darkness, and then you’ll awaken new insights, for it is only when night obscures the world that it reveals the galaxy. -Gurwinder

“We are the generators of the Internet, we are generators of the media. What we give our time, attention, and money to is what thrives, and what doesn’t get it is what dies.” -Ezra Klein

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”-Marcus Aurelius

“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” - Marcus Aurelius

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b

Toolkit to activate excitement:

Act on your highest excitement

Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)

To the best of your ability

Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it

We remain a society obsessed with individual achievement. We equate success with elevation: “Climbing the ladder”, “Scaling my Everest”, “Being on top of the world”. Fatherhood is changing you. But if you step back, you’ll see it's changing all of us together. What might happen to a group of dads who realise they could help change each other?