Lauren Crichton

love asking people: - what their “endgame” is - what they’re borderline overconfident about - what they’d want to do if they knew they’d be successful at it - what their fighting style is - what outfit they’d wear everyday if no one would notice they repeated - what they

One thing I notice in myself is that I’ve had to cultivate counter-instincts: if something feels a little bit too alluring and promising, I grow suspicious of that and go in another direction. Kristian Mattson, who performs as Tallest Man on Earth, also talks about this. If he gets really excited about a new song that he’s working on, he will stop ... See more

Another embodied communication: to slow down or else be slowed.

Hypothesis: It's easier to have integrity when those close to you cherish your *values* and the *process* that leads to your beliefs, rather than the beliefs, positions, and affiliations one holds.

What dance is to movement, essays are to thought

There is a moment in Philip Glass’s memoir, Words without music, when he works as assistant to the sculptor Richard Serra.

“You know, Richard, I wish I could draw,” says Glass. “I can’t even draw a tree.”

“I can help you with that,” says Serra.

“Really? How?”

“I’ll teach you to ‘see’ and then you will be ... See more