I had a friend once who bought a house in Torrance, CA with a railroad track literally outside his back fence. The train would come barreling through about 5 or 6 times each night — and for the first few months, he barely slept (but realized why the house was so cheap). But within about […]
How To Become An Overnight Success
We’ve all heard interviews with people who became an overnight success. Everybody wants to know how they did it. We assume they must be unusually gifted or skilled or smart to have made it happen. But they probably did it by becoming an overnight failure – over and over and over. We assume that we […]
Do We Really Need Other People?
When I was a kid, our annual family vacation was usually at Sequoia National Park in central California. We would rent a “housekeeping cabin” where we’d cook on a wood stove, then put the leftover food scraps in metal trash cans on the canvas covered porch. Shortly after dusk each night, we would watch through […]