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You don’t know a thing about the person you’ll turn out to be in a few years. That’s what’s so incredible: When you’re fully alive, you’re constantly surprised. Joy springs from surprise, from uncertainty, from surrender. Romance and trust and deep communion are always left to chance. Dare to cultivate curiosity instead of fear and control. Dare to... See more

Conversations are more invigorating to me when we’re both using “I.”

What I’m looking for when I ask people questions normally is something one of my producers calls “the look away,” which is when someone is going back into their memory and really living in that space, and often they’ll break eye contact with you and look away because they’re not really with you anymore. And that’s the goal, to get someone there as ... See more

essentially, the way to succeed on YouTube is to start by making 100 videos, trying to make each one a little better than the last, and otherwise not judging your performance too harshly until you’ve shipped 100 videos

I wish I had been told earlier that as long as you truly believe in yourself, everything else will fall into place—the right people will support you, and the right opportunities will come your way. I believe confidence and conviction in your vision attract the energy and connections needed to make it a reality.

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.

Didion has defined a writer as “a person whose most absorbed and passion ate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. I write entirely to find out what’s on my mind, what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I’m seeing and what it means, what I want and what I’m afraid of.” She has also said that “all writing is an attempt to find out... See more