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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison I remember one business meeting where my fear was so active that I was shaking. My head knew I would survive, but my body and emotions were panicking. I asked myself in that moment, “What do you want: to succeed…
How do you learn? Why do you learn? As many of you know, I grew up dyslexic, which had its disadvantages. Now, I can see its advantages — I had no choice but to learn in non-rote ways. It took a while; I finally understood that memorizing data for a test was not my strong…
I remember moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 1976 with no money, friends, or work. After living in a youth hostel with snoring men and working in a laundry, I got a job at a construction company. Within a few months, as a foreman leading the crew, I arrived before anyone else in the morning and…
Luke Burgis speaks about how so much of what we want is not what we want. He dove into how we are trained to want what others want on an interview we did with him for an EVRYMAN Global Call. His new book, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, helps unpack your conditioning…
I tried to be a good student. I tried to remember the order of things and then execute that order – yet something would always go wrong. I remember going to catechism, the Catholic religious training, and stressing out because I could not remember all the steps of First Communion. If you were not brought…
In the mid-1990s, my business Paul and I were building the Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine in Arizona. John Rattenbury, the lead teacher at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s school in Scottdale, was our architect for the project. I remember John explaining to me how acoustic resonance works. Wright designed the beautiful Gammage Theater at ASU with a large…
