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Download: Protocol For Finding Your Way

*The download is below. But read this first: While life doesn’t come with instructions on how to do it “best”, we do have built in mechanisms for finding our way – a kind of self-navigation that helps us maneuver through the chances, choices, and strange detours that...
How Do You Actually Change?

How Do You Actually Change?

Our reactions to situations, our daily habits, our mental processes are so deeply engrained. Changing how we do things can be hard and other than the lived experience of knowing this to be true, here are some stats.  In 2022 alone, over 85,000...
Cognitive Diversity

Cognitive Diversity

There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there’s more risk.” —Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House” This is a sentiment that feels deeply true to me especially as I come up on my 43rd birthday. There’s something about creeping into your...
Divergent Thinking

Divergent Thinking

Traditional western schooling was originally designed to prepare students for a factory-based economy. With its roots in the industrial era, it emphasized convergent thinking, which involves a focused, linear, and analytical way of reasoning to reach a correct answer....
Find Your People

Find Your People

I often hear from people that they’re looking for like-minded friendships. It had me wondering what that really means. That statement often comes from people who are philosophical and open-minded so I know they aren’t saying they want friends who all think the same....