“The meaning of life… clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.” Meaning is not something we find — it is something we make, and the puzzle pieces are often the fragments of our shattered hopes and dreams. “There is no love of life without despair of life,”…
I couldn’t stand up. The sun was setting over a remote beach, we were out of water, there was no cell service, and walking wasn’t an option. A few hours earlier, none of that seemed possible. Looking back, I realize this experience taught me more about service than any professional training ever did. When I…
One of the many annoying decision theory puzzles is Newcomb’s Paradox. The paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The dread philosopher Robert Nozick published a paper on it in 1969, and it was popularized in Martin Gardner’s 1972 Scientific American column. The paradox involves a game controlled…
“Your values are the deeply held beliefs that serve as your internal compass.” -Stephen Covey When I had my stroke, what rose to the surface wasn’t my job title or my salary, but my core values. Values are what really mattered and helped me to heal. One of the first steps to finding your purpose…
