August 2020

One of the things that’s been uncomfortable about making all these videos is that here I am talking and delivering this monologue, but I don’t actually know what I’m talking about. And you know, usually when you’re listening to somebody talk, it’s useful if it’s somebody who actually knows what he’s talking about. Maybe you […]

You see a lot of people that just don’t think a lot about what is the meaning of life, what’s the point of it all, what’s this all about, how can I live a better life. All these kind of questions that I’m always going on about in this channel, a lot of people don’t

The minimal to-do list: this has been my ideal for some time, but it seems a lot easier said than done, because there’s so many things that just keep coming up that just keep adding to this list of things to do. But I have this vision of a to-do list that is extremely simple,

When it comes to making decisions in life, we can look at it from two different perspectives that are often- they both fit under the category of making decisions, and yet they’re very different. And this is sometimes brought up in the distinction between leadership and management. What is the difference? What is a leader

So looking out my window at the green tree: now I’m thinking about the late summer feeling. So I looked at that feeling when summer arrives, that peak of midsummer, and then there’s that “dog days of summer”, that heat wave feeling, the siesta of the year, that feeling of just being immobilized by the

When it comes to this whole meaning of life thing, looking at my life, trying to make a better life, trying to improve my life, what will I do with this life? It seems like it’s very easy to look at it as being like it’s this one thing, like it’s one piece. “This is

When it comes to this idea of creating your life, making it art, using your life as some kind of design, making it into some kind of art, one of the tools that I really like to use is the calendar. A calendar takes days and sort of designs them and arranges them into some

I’m sure we’re all used to hearing that standard line that every day is a new day, so no matter what happened in the past, we can start fresh with every day. And of course, natural reaction against it, well, you know, everything in the past went into putting me into this position that I

What are our limits? How are we limited? What are the edges of what we can do? How do we find them? In some ways, in one way of looking at it, we could see ourselves as unlimited, because we don’t know where the borders are of what we could do. Because we don’t know

One thing’s for sure, that we all want things. We all want a lot of things. And what does it mean to want something? It’s like we’re craving this end state, this state of having achieved what we want, and we want to feel better by achieving that end state. So this idea of wanting: