Is there a more praiseworthy virtue than courage? When you think of the archetypes that inspire respect, courage is inextricably attached. Think of protectors. In real life: firemen, police, soldiers. In the movies, we pay to watch Batman, James Bond, and countless other vigilantes risk their lives and put themselves in danger for the common […]
The Nicomachean Ethics Review (Change Your Life With Aristotle’s Virtues)
What if I told you that you could completely change your life for the better in just 3 months? In 3 months, you will have entered the elite. You’ll be in better shape, looking and feeling the best you’ve ever felt. You’ll have deeper friendships and relationships. You’ll deal with challenges in healthier ways. You’ll […]
Lessons Learned From The Creative Penn Podcast
Joanna Penn is one of my most valuable mentors and I haven’t even met her. Her Creative Penn Podcast has been one of the most profound educational influences in my life over the last five years. It’s influence perhaps even more significant than the education I gained from Joanna and my shared alma mater, Oxford […]
How to Use Art to Make Decisions (Wall Street Playboys Response)
I’ve long thought art could be used as a practical tool to solve your problems. Great works of literature are guidebooks for warriors and lovers. A jazz motif can change the course of your life. And art galleries are temples of applicable wisdom. But I’ve not seen anyone conceive of a step-by-step blueprint to actually […]
How to Have a Practice (Change Your Story)
You could call this part two in the lessons I learnt from Misha Thomas (part one is here). Life shouldn’t just happen to you. We’re in this world so BE in this world. Be a human and use your life as an art form to become better. You need to constantly refine, adapt, evolve, improve, […]
Life Lessons from Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet Review
Why are my greatest mentors men and women who died long before I was born? Why is it that a series of ten letters from one Austrian poet to a younger apprentice poet read like the greatest self-help book I’ve ever read? There is lament in this questions. I’m lamenting the lack of such powerful […]
Accept Praise and Compliments as Calling
Misha Thomas and I talked for the entire weekend. Hours spent walking and baking under the turgid Austrian sun. Hitting the cobblestones, taking in the architecture, meandering through galleries, but the focus was not on this wonderful city. The focus was on a powerful Socratic discourse. Misha told me I was his teacher and mentor, but […]
David Baldacci Teaches Mystery and Thriller Writing MasterClass Review
Just when I thought I could get a decent night’s sleep… I log into my MasterClass All Access Pass arena and see they’ve done it again. They’ve only gone and snagged David Baldacci to teach you mystery and thriller writing! At this point, my opinion of MasterClass couldn’t get any higher. It’s already cemented itself […]
Audible Escape Review – Is It Worth It?
I wish Audible Escape had been around a few years ago. I was writing romance novels and devouring romance books. Seductive thrillers, sweet romance, sexy new adult, regency romance. You name it, I was into it. When I get into a genre, I binge. Binge hard. And romance is one of the most compulsively bingeable […]
Comics Cost A Dollar A Minute (Joe Hill’s The Cape Review)
I first got turned onto Joe Hill’s writing with Locke and Key, which made me fall in love with American comics, and then led to me devouring his novels (Heart-Shaped Box is my favourite). So when Cute Comic Book Girl told me The Cape, a one-off graphic novel based on Joe Hill’s short story, was even […]
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