Picture this: a three-year-old boy, sitting wide-eyed in a dim theater, his small hand in his mother’s, gazing at the flickering screen where worlds unfold before him. For hours, he’s transported, and when the lights come up, those characters follow him home, filling the quiet spaces of his childhood. This boy is Al Pacino, the … Read more
Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art has been so influential to my life and my pursuit of prolific practice, that I naturally went down a Pressfield rabbit hole, reading nearly everything written by the man himself, a lot written about him, and watched dozens of interviews. The more I learned about him, the more … Read more
Charlie Kaufman has written movies like Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and others. What I love most about Charlie Kaufman is the depth of his thinking, and how his art expresses truth. The following are quotes from a BAFTA lecture he gave on 30 … Read more
In 1978 Brunello Cucinelli founded a luxury fashion brand in Italy, but what’s most remarkable about him is his life’s story. He grew up as the son of a farmer, leading oxen over the fields. He also fondly remembers the Italian cafes, where people would drink coffee at two in the morning, play card games, … Read more
I didn’t know about Kamal Ravikant until I watched this interview on the Rich Roll podcast. It made me curious to learn more about him and his work. Loving myself has been a theme that’s been becoming more important for me in recent years, and one I didn’t consider much for the first thirtysomething years … Read more