Our Actions Are Blindly Biased Towards What We Want On the surface, we think we are rational. We make rational choices based on multiple factors and conditions under review. We gather information, weigh the options, consider the risks and arrive at a decision. At...
Freedom Is Not Doing What We Want. It Is Owning What We Choose. Freedom without a sense of ownership, responsibility and character only leads us to ruin. That sounds like a strong claim. It is meant to be. We tend to treat freedom as something good in itself: the more...
Find the Spark. Then Feed It. A spark, on its own, does very little. It flickers. It shows that something is there. And then, if nothing is added to it, it goes out. Most sparks do not fizzle out because they were weak. They fizzle out because nobody fed them. A few...
Our Work Is to Clean Our Colour, Not Change It We are colours of nature. Unique in many ways, yet blend in many ways. No two people are quite the same shade. Each of us carries a particular mix of temperament, history, strengths and instincts that nobody else has in...
We Rarely Lose Our Freedom. We Give It Away. Freedom is about freedom of mind. When we hear the word freedom, we usually think of something outside us. Laws, rights, borders, the absence of anyone telling us what to do. Those matter. But most of us, most of the time,...
The Level You Engage At Decides What You Get There are multiple ways to solve our problems. There are also multiple levels at which our problems are solved. We tend to notice the first and overlook the second. When something needs fixing, we look for someone who can...
The Spark Was Never Ours to Keep A time will come when a spark is lit within us. And a time will come when it fizzles out. Most of us have felt both. We just rarely notice the second one while it is happening. When the spark is lit With age, various sparks are lit...
The Enemy Is Within. We spend a great deal of our lives guarding against enemies. We lock our doors. We insure our homes. We protect our savings, our reputations and our positions. We watch competitors, critics and anyone who might take what we have built. Much of our...