Blog Category: Self-care

“Can I have a pen?” I couldn’t let early onset Alzheimer’s stop me from learning how to boost brain performance. I need to remember. I was sitting with Tero Isokauppila. He spent his whole childhood foraging in the woods. Then he grew up and built a business out of it. It’s mushrooms meets peak performance. […]

Tony Robbins stopped by on his birthday. And then he started causing problems. Like he does. “I realize you’re high energy,” the audio engineer says, looking at Tony, “but when you bang the table it sounds like the whole room is shaking.” In 220 podcasts, it’s the first time the audio engineer had to interrupt […]

My ancestor from 70,000 years ago was smarter than me. He knew every plant, mushroom, animal, predator, prey in a several mile radius. He knew how to make weapons. He knew how to capture something, make it edible. I can barely order delivery. And as far as weapons, they say “the pen is mightier than […]

It’s the most commonly believed lie. It will make you lose all your money. It’ll make you wake up in your 40’s or 50’s and wonder what you’re going to do about retirement. It will make you develop your worst possible habits. For me, it was drinking. And waking up face to floor. I was […]

“When did you decide to go from being a lawyer to a full-time writer?” I asked Gretchen Rubin. She wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller, “The Happiness Project.” She worked for The Supreme Court. “I was surrounded by people who loved law. They were reading law on the weekends. They were talking about law […]