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Oh, the mind. It provides so many reprieves from daily living. It allows us to travel in our imagination to far away places. Seize an inspired idea. Write beautiful poetry and compose lyrics to a song. In its brilliance, it comes up with solutions for the problems that face humanity. Vaccines and alternative energy technology; clean water resourcesRead more

Do you ever feel as if every other actor in the world has this magic DNA to be a “star” and that you’re somewhere in this reject pile of boring blandness? Incapable inconsistency? Loser laziness? As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to discover that besides talent (which I believe everyone has equal amounts of), success and a careerRead more

You can do it. You know how to do it. You are doing it. What keeps you from doing it fully are two sticky myths about creating that are hard to shake. 1). The “greats” are greater than you. We’re all human. We’re all talented and capable and brave and scared and strong and weak. The problemRead more

Mystery writer, Harlan Coben says, “The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.” That’s because the truth, no matter how funky and dark and ugly it sometimes appears, always liberates us into light. By facing it, you see that it’s not ugly at all ”“ but an amazing gift, that for some reason we were seeingRead more

Gord Downie, the lead singer of the Canadian rock band Tragically Hip really lived up to the adage “the show must go” on this past week. He has terminal brain cancer. He performed what may be his last concert of his life last weekend. I wasn’t there ”“ but the accounts I’ve read ”“ and a studentRead more

It’s pilot season! A lot of people are booking work, and a lot of people aren’t. If you find yourself in the second group, don’t freak out. Who books work and how it happens is a complex process and there are no hard and fast rules. Brie Larson said as much after winning her OscarRead more

6. Worse Case Scenario Exercise. If you were to do the one thing you knew you had to do to get where you wanted to go, what’s the worst thing that could happen? I mean the absolute worst thing? Go ahead and think through the worse case scenario in detail. For example: Let’s say you getRead more

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve discovered that all the things I’ve said “I Don’t Know” in response to – I actually did know. I’m not talking about knowing the answers to advanced physics or calculus theorems. I’m talking about knowing the answers to questions that pertain to the heart. You do know what you wantRead more

The paradox of Schrödinger’s cat is indeed weird. It demonstrates that in a hypothetical experiment – in the world of the quantum – a live cat put in a box with radioactive decay that could possibly be released and therefore kill the cat, experiences two different wave forms superimposed on each other. In other words,Read more

Life itself is an affirmative act. Everywhere in nature you see the inclination, the will to life. Flowers bloom. Birds dispense plant seeds so that they continue to propagate and grow. Weeds are so committed, they poke out from cement sidewalks, where life seems inhospitable. A spider spins its web in places that are certainRead more