resilience

Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules

Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules

In July 2020, Chris Taylor summarized “Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules.” Five years later, I’m finally posting this on my blog. Hoping to make this a series of 12 posts about flourishing… the first, just sharing his cool idea, and then eleven more with some notes and observations on each thread.

How to interact meaningfully with discomfort: A (video) Tale of Whale Eyes by James Robinson

How to interact meaningfully with discomfort: A (video) Tale of Whale Eyes by James Robinson

Go watch James Robinson’s exquisite video: How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’. Read on for my 24(!) favorite lines in which Robinson takes a complex, uncomfortable and challenging situation (how being made to feel different feels lousy), and made it simple, accessible and relatable.