Last week over 500 Desire Map Book Clubs gathered in cafes and living rooms and book stores. Boise. London. Brazil. And one group in LA that I surprised!
books
My Upper Limit Problem and how we resist joy
When the stakes are high or when the success is more than you’ve experienced before, Upper Limit Problems can strike. You rain on your own parade. You make a windfall of cash and you get into a car accident. You fall in love and you pick a silly fight. You come down with something before a big moment…
Passion over perfection. Love over politics. The Story of Mrs. Mulvey.
I was in a special English class in high school, the one for the word geeks and bookworms. That was me in the front row with big hair and leg warmers, talking Bronte and Shakespeare. Mrs. Mulvey, my English teacher, was on the outside of my teen drama (and there was a lot of drama back then — I left home when I was sixteen), and we rarely spoke out of class, but how she treated me quietly influenced my entire creative career…
9 books for deepening how you create + work (part 2 of 3)
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality.
9 books that could deeply influence how you live (part 1 of 3)
Discipline is a tool that numbs the mind. When I read this, I felt like there was a ray of light cracking through my living room. This singular thought changed the way I approached my entire life.
ignore everybody, by hugh macleod
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. That is being human.
