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It’s easier to avoid complacency than to reverse it. KB

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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard

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Sometimes exploring is about revisiting your tried and true favorites all at once. Expressing gratitude toward experience. Beef, gnocchi and veggie medley. How often do you combine all of your favorite foods onto… Continue reading

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Ever get bored of your grocer’s standard fruit selection? Move on to exotic fruit. From 12 o’clock, clockwise: Kiwano melon (orange, green) – Alien food! Has very little taste, but indulges eyes with… Continue reading

The relationship between Excellence, Practice and Failure.

Excellence is achieved by spending 10,000 hours practicing a given activity. Practice, however, is cited as the least enjoyable and most difficult experience along the way.  What’s the takeaway? Quit berating yourself while… Continue reading

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The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that’s happening around us without freaking out, where we… Continue reading

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Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice… Continue reading

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“When we leave ourselves alone, when we’re flowing like we’re supposed to flow … we automatically go into a creative mode.” –Alan Arkin from a conversation with David Ulrich in “Broadening the Arc… Continue reading

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