What do you do when there’s something that you don’t feel like doing but you know you should do? Do it anyway. Pre-decide to do it anyway. Pretend it’s like work. If you can work 9-5, then you can exercise 5-6 and clean the house 6-7. Even if you don’t feel like it. I’m not …
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Everyone is risk averse. Even the guy who rock climbed El Capitan in Yosemite (an ascent of over 3,000 feet) without a rope, Alex Honnold. He’s risk averse. He climbs with a rope 95% of the time. Even though he takes the unnecessary risk of climbing without a rope sometimes, he is very cautious when …
If you’ve got a big idea, then don’t let the conventions of the world hem you in. Do what you need to do to bring your big idea to life. Maybe your idea is as big as a titanoboa. Maybe it doesn’t fit on one page. Maybe it doesn’t fit in one minute, or in …
One of my favorite things in life is waking up and opening a window or going outside and getting that first breath of fresh air. There’s a reason that became a common phrase. The interesting thing about it is that it only exists juxtaposed with stale air. You can’t have one without the other. Or …
My refrigerator was leaking and I looked up how to fix it and learned that water from somewhere inside the freezer overflows into this shallow pool in the freezer and freezes there and when that area is full, it then leaks out onto the floor, where I was seeing it. I needed to break up …
The clock is ticking. Until the kids wake up. Until the sun rises. Until the bad news comes. Until the back aches. Until the toe hurts. Until the sun sets. Until the bell tolls. Until you wake up. Until the alarm rings. Until the moment the moment walks away and doesn’t come back. Pencils down. …
We have a toy robot that operates in different languages. I pressed the language button, not knowing what it did, and it started speaking Japanese instead of English. It also speaks French, Spanish, and German. Sometimes it’s obvious when someone starts speaking a different language to you, and sometimes, it’s not. Legalese looks a lot …
Tonight I saw a handful of fireworks in my neighborhood from my backyard but my 4-year-old son didn’t come outside in time to see them in time. He was disappointed, then went inside and said, “I’m just going to draw some so we can see some more.” It reminded me of a story that Sir …
My 2-year-old daughter knows to twist a door knob but she doesn’t know that she needs to push or pull after that in order to open it. She twists and shouts. When you don’t know how things work, the world is confusing and frustrating. What mysteries do you need to figure out?
There’s a tree on a trail that I like to run that is sideways. It fell over. I assumed it was dead until my friend pointed out that all the leaves were green and it was still growing. Some of its roots were still in the ground even though some dead roots were now pointing …
