Because you don’t have to, right? Escalators are magic stairs that walk themselves. You can do nothing and still move. Great, right? But should you stand still on an escalator just because it’s moving you? What if it moves you more slowly than your legs? What if you walked up escalators? Then you would be …
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I remember playing pool with a coworker who was visiting from India and he was an excellent player. He made most of the shots he took and the balls didn’t just go into the pockets, they were going into the dead center of the pockets. It was like a basketball shot that goes in and …
It took me a while to figure out that I was surfing waves that were too big for me. The people around me were better surfers than I am and they were comfortable but I was not. But I didn’t realize that I was uncomfortable until I was in smaller waves and I noticed how …
It’s hard to realize what the norms of your normal are until you leave and see something different. Some cars have the steering wheel on the left side of the car, some have it on the right. Some cars stop at intersections, some cars drive around a roundabout. You might slice butter downwards in square …
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower I have a to do list and whenever I find myself getting distracted or doing something that seems important but is not on my to do list, I write it down on my to do list, so that …
Hard to believe, but sometimes clipping your toenails is the most important thing in the world. Just like sometimes your biggest problem is a mosquito. It doesn’t seem right, but when we choose to chase or swat at a mosquito, or when we sit down to clip our toenails, we are saying with our actions …
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“Nature will try anything once.” —Annie Dillard Nature will try anything once. You. You are an experiment. You are something it’s trying. You are its way of exploring. You are one of its thoughts. You are a good idea. Your job is to be you. If life is a tree, then you are a branch—a …
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” ―Flannery O’Connor “I would definitely write my blog even if no one read it.” —Seth Godin Hi, I’m Mitch. I like to write. And so I’m writing. Every day for a year. Starting today. I don’t know what I’m going …
