The Creative Self: Why The Habit of Making is Essential

Oct 7, 2015 | How People Work

We don’t know if what we make will be any good. Whether or not it’s good is not the reason we begin. We begin because we must. We practice because creativity is a practice. Showing up for yourself is a skill you must practice again and again and again,...

6 Ways to Improve Your Teaching, Public Speaking, and Presentations

Oct 4, 2015 | Business and Entrepreneurship

Speaking and writing are such gifts: they let you put together ideas, deep ideas, rich ideas, and share them with an audience. In a world of quick conversation and superficial conversation, books and well-thought out presentations can still carry the weight of an idea...

Why We’re Lonelier Than Ever (and Why Marriage is Falling Apart), According to Kurt Vonnegut

Sep 19, 2015 | How People Work

How many people do you interact with on a daily basis? Not online, or in your email inbox, but in real life? What about during the week? I had to do a quick tally — (ten coworkers, my husband, a few close friends I see regularly, an occasional dinner or evening out),...

Learning How to Meditate

Sep 12, 2015 | Life

I finally achieved the badge for meditating three days in a row on the app I’m using to meditate. To be clear, I didn’t know that this even existed. It took me 8 months to figure THAT out — or, depending on how you count, it took me 31 years to figure out how to sit...

15 Quotes on Meditation and Mindfulness From Jon Kabat-Zinn

Aug 29, 2015 | Life, Mindfulness

I have a small (but growing) stack of wisdom books on my desk that speak to the human experience. One of them is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life.” I’ve highlighted and...