Yesterday I talked about how, with the whole lockdown situation, forcing changes, bringing in this new sudden element of chaos into what was seen as the ordinary way of doing things, leads to an opportunity to try different things, try new things. And one aspect of this is the idea of categories. It’s so easy […]

The first month or so of the lockdown, I just talked about it every day, because it was like this is so new and different that I just can’t bring myself to talk about any of these things that are always relevant, because there’s just this one current issue that is just changing so many

So today is midsummer day here in the north, the longest day of the year, the shortest night. The sun is the farthest north that it ever goes. And I really like to acknowledge and celebrate these basic movements of the sun and the seasons, because somehow it connects us to the natural world. To

When it comes to ways that we have our success measured, there’s the obvious one of money, you know, how much wealth do you have, which you can share with all your wonderful fancy possessions, or how much fame you have, critical, popular acclaim, you can show how well adored you are. And you know,

So to make it a trilogy about this topic of frame and getting people’s approval: in the first video, I talked about the idea of frame. Are you in your own story, or are you living as somebody else’s story, living as a piece of somebody else’s story? Or are you setting your own story?

Seems like a big part of this issue with frame and having our own frame or living in somebody else’s frame is really about the idea of approval, being approved. We all like to have this feeling that, you know, we are OK, we are good, we are great. And it feels good to be

A concept that I’ve found helpful is the idea of frame, the idea of how we frame ourselves and what’s going on in our lives. And I’ve talked about a related idea with the idea of are you in your story or are you in somebody else’s story? And it’s kind of like that. It’s

So much of our lives is spent doing boring things, mundane activities, and it seems like it’s very hard to get away from that. I mean, we all try to have more fun, and it’s almost like sometimes this kind of entertainment that we seek, we’re trying to compensate for the boredom and the dullness

It’s a bit of an abstract idea, but something I’m enjoying thinking about is taking concepts of system theory and ecology and kind of applying them to personal life. So you can imagine yourself as a system, and there’s energy coming in, energy going out, energy moving around within the system, and you can sort

Planning seems like an activity that provides us with an endless source of humility. Because no matter what we plan, how perfectly we design our future, there’s always going to be surprises that throw things in often completely new directions, leaving all the work that we did in planning and preparing for our imagined future,