It doesn't get much deeper or more comprehensive than Leo Tolstoy's "A Calendar of Wisdom." The book is meant to be read one day at a time for the 365 days of the calendar year. Each day is loosely organized around a theme (although the theme is …
My Ikigai 2.0 — A Detailed Personal Ikigai Example of How to Find Your Life Purpose
Ikigai sounds good and all in theory, but what most people are really looking for is a real-life ikigai example. Over the last five years, I've studied and experimented with dozens of methods, approaches, and formulas for life purpose. The one …
The Rise of Wise Podcasting — 10 Intellectual Podcasts to Think Deeply, Boost Knowledge, & Live Better
Be sure to also check out the previous post: 8 profound podcast episodes introducing the meaning crisis, sensemaking, & Game B It seems there's a growing “online intellectual awakening”—curious minds and deep thinkers finding each other …
8 Profound Podcasts Introducing the Meaning Crisis, Sensemaking, & Game B
There are some relatively "new" concepts floating around this corner of the internet everywhere you seem to look—on podcasts, videos, articles, you name it. Perhaps you've seen terms like "meaning crisis," "sensemaking," and "Game B." These …
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How to Adjust your Unconscious Default Setting with “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace (+ Infographic)
The majority of people in the audience of David Foster Wallace's This is Water speech at Kenyon College in 2005 didn't understand what he was talking about. This is evidenced by their laughter and applause a few times throughout the speech. To …
The Communication Cheat Sheet — What is an Aphorism, Heuristic, Platitude, Deepity & More (+ Infographic)
What is an aphorism? How about a heuristic? Sick of platitudes? What in the world is a deepity? After seeing some of these words over and over again on Twitter—and getting tired of repeatedly searching definitions of them—I decided to make this …
