If you’re part of the system, you’re part of the problem.

How to create your future self

So many of our actions in life we do without thinking. We are on autopilot, we follow algorithms, we function by routine and habit.

By paying attention to your experience, as it happens, in the moment, you can find that there are many other possible…

The Four Illusions

Our ability to accurately perceive the world is limited by four illusions which are based on deep human needs.

The need for permanence: A feeling that things are stable and that the world isn’t shifting constantly under our feet.

My friend, the monkey mind.

Monkey mind is a Bhuddist concept for the conscious mind, that continuously streaming internal dialogue that…

The man who wanted fish.

This is the story of a man who wanted fish. It happened a long time ago. I was just out of art school and I was working at a fish market which was right on a busy city street, and in walked a man who looked homeless. He was definitely a raggedy man and he had an old black bible in his…

Tune your mind.

Any instrument or tool that has some degree of complexity will get out of whack from time to time and need to be tuned or calibrated. Take a guitar, for example. If you are playing with an out-of-tune guitar, it does not matter how well you play, you will not be able to make beautiful music or…

A moment in time

Turn off your autopilot. Do something different. See what happens.