Hi Remember when you were a kid and tried to set fire to a leaf with a magnifying glass? You had to hold it just right, with the sunlight focused on one small, intense point before anything happened. If you spread the light too wide, nothing burned. Business (and...
Hi Deep down, we all know the best day to start that thing we’ve been putting off is today. And yet, most of us don’t. There’s always something in the way. But when you remove one obstacle, another pops up just as fast. The kids finally leave home, then guests come to...
Hi Halloween seems the perfect day to talk about fear. Not the kind that hides in haunted houses, but the kind that sneaks into mind when you’re about to put something out into the world, “What if it’s not good enough?” We all know that feeling of hesitation and...
Hi I went to an Andy Goldsworthy exhibition yesterday here in Edinburgh. He creates art from natural materials. One of the exhibits was a series of 52 flags, one for each U.S. state, each dyed with pigment made from the reddest earth he could find in that state....
Hi This is a great question (and analogy) from James Clear. “If you want a plant to grow, you can fuss over it every day—watering, weeding, moving it toward the sun. Or you can place it in the right soil and let nature do most of the work. A seed planted in the...
