“The smart gap,” is the distance between the intelligence you’re currently manifesting and the intelligence you actually need in order to do the work and the thinking you want to do.
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Trapped in Smallness
We have arrived at an age of narrow specialization—and with it, serious repercussions.
We have arrived at an age of narrow specialization—and with it, serious repercussions.
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Your Mind as a Crime Scene
How many suspect thoughts will remain free to pester, beleaguer, and derail you?
How many suspect thoughts will remain free to pester, beleaguer, and derail you?
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Your Cognitive Style
How would you describe your “cognitive style”? What words or phrases come to mind?
How would you describe your “cognitive style”? What words or phrases come to mind?
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Where Is Your Energy Supply?
A smart, sensitive, creative person likely finds themself in a complicated relationship with their own energy supply.
A smart, sensitive, creative person likely finds themself in a complicated relationship with their own energy supply.
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Feeling Guilty About Relaxing
I want to chat about five related challenges having to do with how we spend our time.
I want to chat about five related challenges having to do with how we spend our time.
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Are You Sensitive to Mystery?
It seems intuitively true that a smart, sensitive, creative person would find both life and the universe on the mysterious side.
It seems intuitively true that a smart, sensitive, creative person would find both life and the universe on the mysterious side.
Journal Prompts for Smart People: Obsessive Self-Reflection
Would you say that you spend too much time, too little time, or just the right amount of time in your own mind?
Would you say that you spend too much time, too little time, or just the right amount of time in your own mind?
Journal Prompts for Smart People–Challenge Yourself
A smart, sensitive, creative person tends to love and cherish solitude. But significant side consequences to that natural desire are isolation, loneliness, and alienation.
A smart, sensitive, creative person tends to love and cherish solitude. But significant side consequences to that natural desire are isolation, loneliness, and alienation.
Journal Prompts for Smart People, Part 1
How journaling can help smart, sensitive, creative folks cope
How journaling can help smart, sensitive, creative folks cope
Psychological Catastrophe by the Numbers
What the statistics say about where we are
What the statistics say about where we are
Psychological Catastrophe: What Our Species-Wide Inability to Cope With Stress Is Doing
We are unequal to the stressors of the present moment and we are breaking.
We are unequal to the stressors of the present moment and we are breaking.
Why You Need to Take a Leap
How we evaluate life matters.
How we evaluate life matters.
Give Your Life a Thumbs Up
You organize your life around your life purposes. This may not be easy—but it is the way.
You organize your life around your life purposes. This may not be easy—but it is the way.
Boys Sword Fighting
Each day we decide what matters to us. Each day we figure out how to deal with life.
Each day we decide what matters to us. Each day we figure out how to deal with life.
Even More of Nothing
It is “absurd” to care about life when life doesn’t care about us. But that is the right answer.
It is “absurd” to care about life when life doesn’t care about us. But that is the right answer.