The Dichotomy of Control
"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
storytelling
A collection of 40 issues
Espresso Shots 1-17-25
"I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
Espresso Shots 12-8-24
"I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski
Espresso Shots 11-25-24
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
The Overwhelming Noise
"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." - Marcus Aurelius
Espresso Shots 11-10-24
"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." - Christopher Walken (as fictional music producer Bruce Dickinson on SNL)
Espresso Shots 11-3-24
"If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
Espresso Shots 10-20-24
"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Your Goal Broke the System
"Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook." - Julia Child
Espresso Shots 10-6-24
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn, The Socratic Method
Espresso Shots 9-22-24
"I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist." - Hans Rosling
Espresso Shots 9-14-24
"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." - Jim Hopper, Stranger Things
Rethinking Reading
"I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may." —Tyler Durden
Espresso Shots 8-25-24
"It means setting small reasonable goals for yourself one day at a time. One tiny step at a time. Baby steps." - Dr. Leo Marvin, What About Bob?
Ignore All Previous Instructions
"I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may." —Tyler Durden
The Board, Revisited
"You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel." -Rick Dicker, Incredibles 2
Fixed Growth
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” - Oogway, Kung Pu Panda
Less
"It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils." - Jack Fisher, The Fisher King
Firestarters
"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it." - Marcus Aurelius.
Take an Adventure
"Do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?" - Saito, Inception
The Person You Needed
"Be the person you needed when you were younger". -Ayesha Siddiqi
A Little Kindness
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” - Seneca
All Those Empty Calories
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." – Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
Non Verba
"Life can be so much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." - Steve Jobs
Owning The Narrative
"Buy the ticket, take the ride" – Hunter S. Thompson
What You Leave Behind
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." - Kurt Vonnegut
The Arena
"Strength and honor." - Maximus, Gladiator
Nesting Dolls
"A grownup is a child with layers on" - Woody Harrelson
Forty Three Percent
"That rug really tied the room together, did it not?" — Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
You Aren't Listening
"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
Life 2.0
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” - Charles Bukowski
Finding Your Superpower
"Now you wanna get nuts?! Come on. Let's get nuts!" - Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), Batman
Manage The Moments
"You mustn’t be afraid to dream up little bigger, darling." - Eames (Tom Hardy), Inception
Leaving Things Better
"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to." – Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
Surface v Depth
"I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
"I'm not a psychopath, Anderson. I'm a high functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock
Skewed Perspective
"You guys playing cards?" - Flounder, Animal House
Time Flies
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn
Random Acts
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it." ― Jordan B. Peterson
Admit You're Wrong
"No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else." – P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman