Monk Notes

Empathy is having a moment. Today, a fair amount of pop psychology and self-help literature emphasizes the importance of empathy as a means to impr...

The first step of growth is facing what we’d rather not see. From a young age, most of us developed a norm when handling our biggest emotions: we a...

One of the myths of modern productivity is that our productivity problems are focus problems. While focus is necessary, it’s not actually inherentl...

Two weeks ago, I was listening to a monk share his personal journey into monasticism.He explained how for most of his college career he was on a tr...

Today we live at an incredibly fast pace.It ->seems ->as ->if ->we ->are ->always ->on ->the ->go. -> We eat on the g...

Change is hard. As in really hard. And if you’ve ever had a bad habit, you know how hard it can be to get rid of it. Our resolutions for changing o...

With three days left in the 2010s, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the last ten years of my life. While change is always constant, I would hav...

For much of my professional working life, I defined myself and much of my worth on my output. It's sincerely embarrassing to share that. It’s not p...