I thought, for a second, I want to do that. But I also thought, No, I don’t. Not now, anyway. Interesting what you hear when you listen to yourself. I turned to my mom, and before I said anything, she said, “I’m going to do that.” She heard the same first part of the voice— but not the second. Oh, mom. You get it. You can do it.
It’s my birthday! Time for Radical Honesty.
I’m 36, as of today! I don’t know why we all have such a fixation on age (like how we always need to know how old the person who wrote the embarrassing story in seventeen magazine is, or the entrepreneur who’s profiled in the style section?). But it’s pretty drummed in. Anti-aging breakthrough technology. 40... Continue Reading →
Happiness: When Thinking Fast Steers Us Wrong
I read a lot of books last year— among them The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis, which led me to Thinking Fast and Slow, by the behavioral psychologist Daniel Kahneman. In Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman proposes that the “fast” system of thinking, or system 1, is the efficient and rapid way of processing information... Continue Reading →
on chasing two rabbits
She who chases two rabbits catches neither one-- and I'm a compulsive rabbit-chaser. As soon as that sucker takes off, I want to go after it. I want to catch all the rabbits! I’m training for a krag maga level 1 test. That means lots of technique, lots of intensity, and lots of anaerobic conditioning... Continue Reading →
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