Diana Nyad TED Talk

Recently Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the protection of a shark cage. Back in 2011, when she filmed this TED Talk, she had no idea that she would ever complete her goal. It is fascinating to hear someone as driven as her talk about failing, especially now […]

Albert O. Hirschman and The Power of Failure.

I liked this Gladwell piece from The New Yorker profiling Albert O. Hirschman, an influential economist and author of several well known books. Hirschman, an esoteric mind,  felt that people were more creative when they experienced failure. Then, he believed, people were forced to think. Hirshman wrote, “Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore […]

10/1 Quote: The greatest step toward a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. ~Steve Maraboli

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

~Tim Ferriss