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When do we decide to fail? It seems like a silly question, like who decides to fail? Failing at something is bad enough so that choosing to do so seems like such a strange decision. Yet, when I think about it, when I think about the lack of success in many of the avenues that …
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It is the last day in 2017 and the first day my family and I are back in Illinois. For Christmas we had traveled to see our families back in Philadelphia, where we are from. We drove, which after yesterday’s travels of snow through the mountains of Pennsylvania and then white-out conditions through Ohio, was …
It’s T-minus 1 day remaining on NaNoWriMo and I don’t even know where I stand. That is, other than knowing that I just didn’t do well at keeping up with the demands. As I wrote, right in the early stages of it I had to nearly abandon my project because my mind went the way …
I had written the bulk of this post days ago thinking that I would not post it. It was another instance of a thought that wasn’t fully formed, that I was trying to write to grab onto an understanding of an idea. But I had a change of heart. Below is what I wrote out …
I found this video (not really as I am subscribed to Big Think), and I loved it. This is a must watch. The idea that growth cannot come without putting ourselves into situations that are outside of our little safe havens is huge with me. It’s about doing the things you might not like to …
