Think Wild
May You Be Free to Focus on What matters
Happy October! I say we start out this new month — this final quarter of 2024 with a wild and brave wish: 💫 May You be Free to Focus on What Matters. Wherever we’re at, whatever is going on, we have things to do. Relationships, careers, passion projects — they all take…
Read MoreSpotlight on Love of Learning
💡 Definition of the Character Strength Love of Learning: ”Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
Read MoreHi my name is Morgan and I have a sensory disorder
Sudden onset hyperacusis changed almost everything about how I engage the world, use my brain, and experience relationships. When it started in 2020, this auditory suffering pulverized my ability to focus, to think, and to live a vibrant cognitive life. I was forced out of the zone of effortless thinking into the gym of mental…
Read MoreSet Experience Goals
Set Experience Goals In order to leverage your brain’s power of competitive selection, let’s think about what we want to experience more of. Enjoying life more means different things to each of us, and can change based on what’s happening around us. I call the things you want to experience more of experience goals. A…
Read MoreWhat is Competitive Selection?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life is never just one thing. Take today for example. I slept in, fixed a fancy homemade coconut latte, and sat down to work in my fuzzy clean slippers. (The Good) The sleep in was sponsored by a persistent ringing in my left ear, and a growing wave…
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