If you’re happy at this moment, you’re inclined to be happy in the next. If you’re upset at this moment, you’re inclined to be upset in the next. This bias for continuity is so strong that it’s easy to forget that, on some level, how we show up in each…

Whenever I watch a comedy show, I always find it particularly fascinating to think about what it must’ve taken for the comedian to be on that stage. As light-hearted a profession as it may seem, it’s not exactly for the faint of heart. For every comedian you see on stage…

There’s a film that came out recently featuring a character that loves cooking. He basically talks about cooking in the film every chance he gets, using terms that only true connoisseurs of the craft would know — or so it seemed. About an hour into the film, there’s a climactic…

I used to skip lunch. The prospect of squeezing an extra hour of productivity into the day was too good to pass up. So much can be done in an hour! (Or so I thought) Project work, responding to messages, getting organized… let’s go! Boy was I in for a…

Every time you utter the words “I wish I could…” or “if only…”, you should immediately follow up with the question: “what is actually stopping me?” “I wish I could start this awesome thing today…” What is stopping you from doing it today? “If only I could be better at…” …

Time does not wait — it’s constantly marching forward, slowly but surely advancing you from your youth to adulthood, and eventually old age. The implications of all the decisions you make or do not make along the way are yours to carry. Time has zero sympathies for regret, there are…

The following excerpt — a rather sobering and fantastically sarcastic one, I might add — from Johnny Truant’s short essay The Universe Doesn’t Give a Flying F**k About You gave me a palpable shift in perspective last night: “You’d think we’re never going to die, the way we cower and…

Imagine someone sitting at a table every day, hunched down, toiling away as she assembles components to build the machine of her dreams. She isn’t certain how much time she will have to build the machine, so she tirelessly attempts to extract as much productivity as possible from each moment. …