The gentle art of sanity amidst civilization
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Ever since I declared my Big Goal — complete self-employment by my 31st birthday — I’ve been flip-flopping about where specifically to start. Because I’m working with such a long timeline, it doesn’t make sense to chart out every action along the way, because I just don’t know how it’s all going to play out. [...]
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The first week of January is a natural time to look back. Just as the earth begins another whirl around the Sun, we can’t avoid confronting the reality that yet another sizable chunk of lifetime has been sealed and locked away in the archives. We don’t get many of those chunks, seventy or eighty if [...]
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Just before flying to Thailand, I spent five days at a retreat community called Hollyhock. It’s a humble, rootsy little hamlet on the relatively remote Cortes Island. I knew very little about the program I’d signed up for, only that it was about Buddhism. It turns out that it was a rather intense regimen of [...]
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David began a 30-day daily meditation experiment on April 6, 2009. The original post is here. David’s progress log is here. Well, the first official Raptitude experiment has come to an end. I just got up from my final meditation session. As far as I can tell, I am not enlightened. I can neither hear [...]
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David began a 30-day daily meditation experiment on April 6, 2009. The original post is here. David’s progress log is here. Well it’s been a real trip so far. Here we are at the halfway point. After a rocky first week, I’ve settled into a comfortable groove. But it took a bit of trailblazing. About [...]
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Little Buddha says, “Chill out.” In my About section, I mentioned that experimentation is important to the spirit of Raptitude. From the start, this blog has been about improving humanity through improving yourself, and improving yourself primarily by developing mental skills. Most of the skills I’ve talked about already, namely keeping life fresh, investing your [...]
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