Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged balance, dating, health, vice, virtue, writing on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I have a friend who’s a Gamer (video games, not the other kind), and he recently asked, “How do you have time to write, go to the gym, and play video games? Don’t you work?”
“I dunno,” I told him. “If it’s important enough, you just find the time.”
Now that I’ve had more time to mull it over, I think a more accurate answer would be: “You make time according to how important it is to you.”
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged reading, writing on February 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I once read that Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace both came up with the theory of evolution independently.
They both traveled to exotic places (the Galapagos Islands and the Malay Archipelago, respectively), observed the local species of flora and fauna, and sought to explain the cause of their differences.
The funny thing is that they were both stumped until each read Malthus’ essay on human overpopulation and applied its ideas to the species they were studying. Many famous biologists have since noted how obvious evolution by natural selection seems and wondered why the theory took so long to formulate.
Can you imagine? All because of some paper they read.
How many ideas have you come up with, dear reader, because of some random article you read, or some rare conversation you had? How many stories of mythology were heard, how many interactions of schoolchildren were observed, before J. K. Rowling wrote the masterpiece that is Harry Potter?
Good output, it would seem, requires good input, and plenty of it.
Other times, you might have more than enough swimming around inside your head, but you just need time and space to process it, like cream separating from milk.
That’s where those long walks on the beach come in.
Enjoy!
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged balance, discipline, house of dreams, metaphor, procrastination, writing on November 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
Let’s say… you’re a writer. You’ve done a lot of reading, but you’ve never come across the book you want to write. There’s a unique emptiness out there that needs to be filled. You know you have the talent, the intellect, the creativity to fill this emptiness. You also secretly fear that if you don’t fill it, eventually someone else will. And yet, you idle.
Posted in Asides, tagged decisions, writing on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Friends and family ask why I spend so much time writing. They either ask:
Why don’t you open up your own practice and make some real money?
Or
Why don’t you just take it easy?
To the first question: Actually, I drew up a business plan a long time ago. It includes everything from how much starting capital I would need to which cities contain the best patient demographics for my intended style of practice. But I realized that running a successful business takes all the time one can spare–time that I could spend writing.
To the second question: Actually, I do “take it easy.” I make time for work, but I also make time for play.
Ok, they say. But why write in the first place?
Posted in Step Up, tagged charisma, confidence, courage, dating, how to, interpersonal, philosophy, writing on February 19, 2013| 5 Comments »
Of course some degree of self-awareness is natural, but if you are stuck inside your head more often than you would like, unable to express yourself authentically and unabashedly to others, then here are a few ideas you may find useful.
1) Let yourself ease into it. Whether early in the morning at work or early in the night at the club, take it easy. Even if everyone around you is already chatty, laughing, having fun, and you feel like you don’t belong, still give yourself time to shift gears into social mode. You don’t have to go racing out onto the track from the get-go. Realize that most people need time to warm up the engine, as it were, before they can go for a spin.
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