Sometimes people believe that you need to have an abundance of great ideas to write something. Kevin Kelly describes it a little differently: “I write in order to think. I’d say, ‘I think I have an idea,’ but when I begin to write it, I realise, ‘I have no idea,’ and I don’t actually know...
When I was doing a lot of endurance sports and triathlons, I started to notice something with the runners. People would run fast down the hill, run fast up the hill, or try to run the fastest on the “nice flat” sections. When we start to look at running efficiency as a maintenance of sound...
A while ago I wrote about “The power of Daily.” I then wrote about the cricketer who replayed the basics, “hitting 100 balls each day.” When we look at someone who has a daily practice, we can easily throw it into the vast chasm of “habits” and say it’s then easier in some way and...
When spearfishing, depending on the type of fish you are looking for, there can be a lot of waiting. Depending on your intent, you could be waiting 5 minutes, or 5 hours. Ultimately, if you get bored, distracted, cold, frustrated and get out, then, well, you aren’t in the water. You’ve just created zero chance...
Typically, we live through the past. We exist as a sort of collection of past experiences that have come through our sensory inputs, feeding into biases and memories, which help us to articulate our current environment and reality in some approximate way. A narrative. Because of the narrative, it’s hard to see things as they...
When we experience positive emotions, we usually express them whether verbally, or with a smile. In 1990, Paul Ekman began looking to see if it worked the other way. It turns out, that when people adopted (even “faked”) a “Duchenne Smile” – which is a full smile involving the facial muscles around the eyes –...
“Is it not a very strange thing in this world, where there is so much distraction, entertainment, that almost everybody is a spectator and very few are players? Whenever we have a little free time, most of us seek some form of amusement. We pick up a serious book, a novel, or a magazine.” –...
As humans we are non-linear, chaotic organisms. Like the weather, or the stock market, when we change one of our inputs, we don’t always see the same direct change in outputs. Even so, when we want to repeat a process over and over – weightlifting, writing, idea generation, we can use a “routine” or a...
