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Traveling for Clarity

I’m currently sitting in Seven Cups tea house in Tucson, AZ. It’s an introverted writer’s dream. The tea is delicious, the AC just right, and I’m the only guest. Slow erhu music is playing softly enough to ignore and loudly enough to create an almost meditative atmosphere. I could never write in a crowded coffee shop, but this is heaven. There are no distractions, so even when I’m hitting a bump in the road, I have no choice but to sit with it and work my way through. A sip of tea is my only break. And I’m not even Read More …

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The Year of Routine – Take Two

At the beginning of this year, I mused about the life of endless routine that the pandemic had brought me. Now, six months on, I’m extremely fortunate that this routine is all the pandemic’s brought me. And yet I spent much of the past year with that edgy feeling that I was wasting time – a non-renewable and fast-dwindling resource – and that life was passing me by. So I actively sought to break the routine, to introduce novelty into my life in an attempt to slow down the subjective passage of time. Did it work? Well, up to a Read More …

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Talent Is Everything – Or Is It?

When it comes to brains or athlethicism or creativity, we all admire the prodigy. The precocious. The talented. Talent is what it’s all about. Now, it’s obvious that some people have talent. A shitload of it. Even when they were children, they excelled at their chosen activity. Some of them became obsessed with it. They practiced for hours. They immersed themselves fully. And they had the right parents or teachers or coaches, and their talent, combined with relentless practice and a good portion of serendipity, took them to the pinnacle of their careers. And then there are those who started Read More …

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Book Envy

Lately, I’ve been working hard on my abundance mentality. The attitude that there’s plenty of good fortune to go around, and that another person’s success doesn’t take away from my own chances but might well enhance them. When you think about it, it all makes sense. It’s freeing, and it’s a key to a content and generous life. And yet I have book envy. It’s not even the big-name authors. If they come out with a new book, it’s all par for the course. It’s like watching a rock star on stage: I enjoy the show, but I don’t want Read More …

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Weasel Words

So I’ve recently been binge-reading Dave Asprey‘s books. He offers up a smorgasbord of biohacks that range from “you’d be crazy to skip this” to “you’d have to be pretty desperate (not to mention filthy rich) to even try”. Still, a lot of it is very doable, and I’ve always enjoyed self-experimentation, so I’ll be busy guinea-pigging for the foreseeable future. Apart from the physical hacks to upgrade your body and mind, there was one concept that appealed to the linguist in me. It’s the concept that words, used thoughtlessly, can have big repercussions on our mindset. In his book Read More …