María Albert

Endurance is a form of trust, in your capacity over time to absorb the stresses and extremes of the present. I say trust because the math in the moment may break: the opposition overwhelming, your resources faint. So you make eye contact with the enemy. You put down your spear. You turn your back and wait for the tension to break. The quality that... See more

Cada noche en Omaha teníamos una cena, pero no una tradicional. En su lugar, tuvimos cenas del Jeffersonian. (Matt Stafford, a quien tuve el placer de conocer en una conferencia en Suiza, escribió un libro sobre las cenas Jeffersonianas y las ha convertido en una ciencia.

Thomas Jefferson organizaba este tipo de cenas en la Casa Blanca cuando era... See more

Inspiration is not something that you can will onto yourself, and once you free your mind of the pressure to feel inspired, you

Michael Jordan left basketball to play baseball and it didn't go exactly as he had planned, there were a bunch of reasons why. And then the baseball strike happened and he starts playing with the Bulls again […] That to me is actually not a story about him getting back to the thing he was good at. It's a story about somebody who had the courage to... See more