I wanted to create a space where we could reconnect with our childlike wonder, which I think especially for black people and minorities can get stripped away over life and you don't even realize when it's happening, how it's happening. It it's getting stripped from you day by day through our experience.
As natural disasters are getting more extreme and less predictable, this series makes sense of that tangle, and provides a prescient peek into FEMA's future.
Yes, there there are bad people in the world, but they are so outnumbered by the good people. The people who will want to help you are are so hugely present out there once you leave this car.
I think what interested me was the people who neither died nor left. I was interested in the people who survived and stayed behind. You know, a lot of history focuses, and rightly so, on the million or so people who died. And then also the people who emigrated. I feel as though those stories have been — we know those stories in a sense, and they're terrible, tragic stories.
It was a dark period in our lives that people we considered to be friends or supporters said such hurtful things. And so to look back, it wasn't just me and Joe. Look at our grandkids, you know, seeing them go through that and how hurt they were.
whenever anyone asks, I would say that there would be no Uber today as it is without Travis and how he was. You know, when many cities, governments, regulators are saying this is a legal stop, to have such steadfast belief that this was going to be good for riders, good for drivers, good for cities, and to still push on with that belief
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. He understood that you had to plan and anticipate and imagine every contingency. And yet, he also understood fundamentally this other Stoic idea, which is there some things in our control and some things aren't.
I would say that there would be no Uber today as it is without Travis and how he was. You know, when many cities, governments, regulators are saying this is illegal stop, to have such steadfast belief that this was going to be good for riders, good for drivers, good for cities, and to still push on with that belief
It's so hard to be living not only in constant limbo, but with this level of hyper-vigilance that no matter what you do, there are outside factors that can wreck your life with a blink of an eye.
Humor is kind of the opposite of toxic positivity where you're like, there's a bright side to everything. Don't worry, every cloud has a silver lining. Like, sometimes that's just not true at all. And I think what I love about humor is that you can find something to laugh at without denying the overwhelming negativity or or violence or frustration or pain, right? You don't have to ignore that. You can laugh in that moment.
You have to be really careful when you reach that peak, as it's always cold, you're often alone, and there's only one direction to go. And it occurred to me right then and there that I didn't want to peak until the day before I die.
Will Durant spent his whole life worrying that he was a failure. He wrote 13 volumes of The Story of Civilization over 50 years, a project so vast it seems almost incomprehensible. And he was worried he was a failure.
The market's not going to get any less crazy. It's the change economy. That's where we are. So, I don't really think we can look outside for calm. I think we have to have ways of creating calm inside.
The whole goal I think of just like being in the water is just like for me has always been stay alive. And then I see other people that are like having fun and I'm like oh that's like a whole another level of interaction with this thing that I have never even considered.
If I spoke to every person on this bus and asked them about their life story, I bet it would be so much better than any fiction that I could write because you wouldn't believe what people have survived and triumphed and seen and done and the grief and the loss and the joy.
I think we're wired to do hard things. And that's kind of perverse, but you know, the marathon has become one of the great bucket list items. I think people get something real out of pushing limits they didn't know that they had.
Stress is less about what you're facing and more about believing you can cope. This isn't positivity. This is regulating your nervous system, framing stress as an opportunity for growth and accepting sensations, even knots in your stomach, lowers cortisol and allows you to persevere.
By the next morning he had packed his bag, said that he did not want any part of our life together, including custody of our children, and then he walked out um and left the island and became someone I did not recognize.
No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that playing with others can't.
We are actively as a society trying to avoid friction at all costs. It's not just in our art, but it's also in the way we move about the world. It's about the way we interact with our loved ones. It's the way we avoid having tough conversations and calling things out as they are.
Trading is like boxing — you have to have your hands up, you have to be ready to move, and you have to understand that the moment you get hit, you need to get out of the ring and reassess.
I know that these things sound quite basic, like climbing a rooftop or hanging out with friends or staying up late. These are not like some big, crazy things. But to me, it felt like I was climbing a mountain, that this was something huge that I was doing in my life because I was making my own choices and I felt that nobody was watching me.
I didn't really have that why me thing. Maybe it's because I'm Jewish. I'm just sort of always waiting for the other shoe to drop. So in this case, it was three shoes.
Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an expert engineer that brings life wherever it waddles and even fights fires.
What I realized what she was doing was she was kind of testing my conviction, right? And she probably got a lot of calls from people who said, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that." And she's like, "Well, if you have the conviction in yourself to move out with no job, that shows you really kind of want it."
I can't go on. I'll go on. And I really did not know how I could go from I can't go on to I'll go on. And that's when I started thinking about this idea of devoting myself to everyday joys or like cultivating these tiny victories, like just having a different metric for what would make me happy or also how I could stay engaged in life?
I felt like it was a story I could understand. And it was a way I could feel kind towards myself. The language of battling and fighting made me also feel at war with my own body, which I don't find helpful.
Serendipity is the active luck that depends on how we engage with the unexpected. Blind luck happens to us, and active luck, serendipity, can be cultivated.
Professionally my cancellation was the best thing that has ever happened to me. I I feel like I need to send my critics a fruit basket sometime. They they were they made my my career.
Old math isn't going to work for the new equations coming to work. You're going to have to start over a bit, redefine yourself, learn again, push yourself, get uncomfortable.
I think we all to some degree feel this way as we go through life, like unprepared, unqualified, and reluctant yet important things are relying on me. So, I have to come through.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew
