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The Screen called Hard Work
What if THE path you believe in is only one of many? There is a story we have all heard in one form or another. A young man grows up in a modest family where opportunities are limited. He is not the most gifted student in the room, nor does success come easily to him.…
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The Restless Mind in the Age of AI
What happens when our restless thoughts meet structured AI and a second brain built to give them direction? As we have seen before, we have a restless genie inside us: our mind. It is super powerful. It can imagine and create stuff, solve problems, learn new things and do almost any work we give it.…
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A Hundred Chances
Reflections on career choices, AI uncertainty and chances. I saw a passage from Emerson’s Self Reliance today and one line impacted me: the idea that we have not one but a hundred chances. He writes about a young man who does not settle into one neat profession. He farms, sells, teaches, preaches, edits a newspaper,…
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Use the Difficulty
Most of life does not begin after obstacles disappear. It begins inside them. The Chair in the Doorway As a young actor, Michael Caine was rehearsing a scene when something unexpected happened. A chair got stuck in the doorway and blocked his entrance. He stopped and told the other actor that he could not get…
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The Comfort of Games, The Chaos of Life
A reflection on Nassim Taleb’s Ludic Fallacy and the risks of mistaking models for reality When the Game Ends One of the ideas that stuck me after reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is something he calls the Ludic Fallacy. The word ludic comes from games. The fallacy lies in believing that the…
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Moonwalking Gorilla: The Things We Never Notice
The other day I came across a brilliant video. The viewers were asked to count the number of passes made by a team dressed in white. There was another team in black moving around in the frame, but they seemed irrelevant to the task. The instruction was clear. Focus on the white team. Count carefully.…
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Living Intentionally: Why Boldness Changes Everything
There are phases in life where we think more than we act. We plan, we prepare. We wait for the right time. We convince ourselves that once clarity arrives, we will begin. Clarity rarely comes before movement. There is a quote often attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Whatever you can do or dream you…
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Becoming the Statue!
Practicing the Sculptor’s Secret in My Own Life In an earlier article, I wrote about the sculptor who sat before a massive block of stone until he could see the statue hidden within it. He did not rush to prove his skill. He did not strike the stone simply to create the appearance of progress.…
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Trust, Judgement, and the Inner Game We Keep Interrupting
One of the most striking ideas in The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey is also one of the hardest to accept in practice. Gallwey speaks about trusting the body. About imagining the ball landing cleanly across the net and letting the body figure out the how. The idea sounds simple, almost obvious, until…
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When Tiredness Is a Conversation, Not a Condition
On stress, exhaustion, and the stories we tell ourselves at the end of the day A question that sounds familiar A busy man was once asked a familiar question. Do you not feel tired and stressed working non stop. Do you not feel that things should pause once in a while. The question came from…
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