Tom White

If video shows the flow of time, photography shows its stillness. Honestly, I don't like short videos much.

It's a core component to achieving success, whatever your yardstick is. If you pick too small of a table or stay there too long, you'll hamstring yourself. It doesn't matter how good you are if you're playing the wrong game or against the wrong people.

The novelist and pastor Frederick Buechner wrote about pain often and eloquently. He said, “Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.”

‘Therefore, tell me:

what will engage you?

What will open the dark fields of your mind,

Like a lover

at first touching?’

—Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. —E.O. WilsonI am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to steer my ship. —Louisa May Alcott

For most of human history, losing a resource could mean death. So your brain evolved to feel losing something about twice as intensely as getting that same thing in the first place. Anyone who's played Monopoly knows this instinctively - no one likes to trade, even for a deal that clearly favours them.

Brain imaging shows why. Contemplating giving... See more