Here are the shifts that transformed me from someone who read maybe 5 books a year to someone who now reads 50+: 1. Stop treating reading like homework. You see you’re allowed to DNF (did not finish) books. You’re allowed to skim the boring parts. You’re allowed to read the ending first if you want. […]
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On loving The Alchemist at twenty-two, questioning it at thirty-eight, and learning that growth isn’t betrayal. I gave The Alchemist to someone I loved when I was twenty-two, convinced it would change their life the way I was certain it had changed mine. They handed it back three days later and said it felt like a greeting
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Facing terminal cancer, the Carnegie Mellon professor turned one final talk into a message about dreams, kindness, and time. A man walks onto a stage at Carnegie Mellon. He’s got tumors the size of tennis balls in his liver. Three to six months left. Three kids at home under six who won’t remember him. And
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“To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” – Pema Chödrön Her name, before everything changed, was Deirdre Blomfield-Brown. She had done everything correctly. Attended the right schools – Miss Porter’s, then Berkeley. Married
The title answered the curiosity that lays between almost all of us. Not the loud, dramatic kind of worry that announces itself and demands attention, but the low hum kind. The worry that sits with you over breakfast. That follows you into conversations you are supposed to be present for. That wakes up slightly before
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