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You ever heard of Rollo May? He was better known in the 20th century, when he was alive and also working as a psychotherapist. He wrote quite a few books at the intersection of modern psychology -- clinical psych dealing with actual people and problems, not goof-off lab experiments --
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I've gotten too friendly over the last few years. Don't mistake me, my quiet underground bunker in New Zealand is still my place of power. But somewhere along the way, I picked up a way of being charismatic entirely by accident. I don't even notice I do it. I'm sure
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There's one skill that I value above all others: The power to detach myself from my beliefs. How many souls can you think of in your own life who dig into their beliefs like a dragon hoarding treasure? Most of them, if your honest. That includes you and me, too.
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I finished reading Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune the other night. If you aren't familiar with the Dune books, this is the fourth in the series. Very different from the tight trilogy of the earlier series. This book gets out-there. It's more of a Big Ideas book. Lots of
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The other week I picked up a copy of Jerry Seinfeld's book called Is This Anything? I'm thinking it's a biography. It's not a biography. I crack it open and what do I find but hundreds of pages of written jokes, going all the way back to the 1970s. That's
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Get past your "oneitis" for that perfect article, story, book, or course.
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You don't understand much about people if you haven't spent any time wondering about people.
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A hard-won lesson from academia
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It's a billion-dollar distraction cult full of bitter people
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The old myth of the struggling romantic artist who can't compete with the carnival-barkers just won't die... we won't let it
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That's far too ambitious a title for what you're about to read
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Don't think you're exempt from systems thinking just cause you're a writer or artist or creative
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Writing to the market's demands can work, for awhile. But you won't build a career unless you do this...
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The hidden dynamics of your life and business in James Carse's book on games
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Sub-created worlds are vital to speculative stories, but nerds ruin storytelling with obsessive worldbuilding