Sublime

including Free to Learn. Gray’s research points to the decline of play in our younger people, how over the past sixty years we’re playing less and spending more and more time in “training” — in highly structured environments of expectations and control. As we’ve gotten more and more serious about getting into good schools and getting good jobs and

To Bemerize a group of twentysomethings, I worked with a trained hypnotist, who convinced them they had just retired. The hypnotist induced them to believe they were forty or fifty years older and asked them to imagine how they might spend this first day in retirement. Then he asked them to imagine that they hadn’t saved enough money during their w

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.

Many cultures make use of memento mori to remind us of our mortality, the skeletons and dying flowers often represented in art or on display in the marketplace. In past centuries, it was common to sit for portraits while holding a dead rose or to carry a watch shaped like a skull in order to signify time running out. In my practice, I notice that m

The idea that everyone must be an expert in one thing

Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.