Chip Conley

When we’re faced with having a difficult conversation, it’s easy to freeze up and freak out. And as long as performance anxiety takes hold of us, we’ll never be in the right frame of mind to have the conversation that needs to happen.

On January 2 after having a lovely fever dream about the common thread of my personal narrative, I published this blog post, Designing Your Own Hero’s Journey. Since that time, this idea of writing one’s story evolved into a full chapter in my book that will be published next January, “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age.”

Without mistakes, how do we learn? A baby has no self-consciousness in moving from crawling to walking. Why do we find learning so painful as we become full-fledged adults?

The first hotel I ever created became San Francisco’s notorious rock ‘n roll motel, The Phoenix (here’s the story of the legendary hotel). It was the beginning of a great adventure that allowed me to press the flesh with some of the most beloved musicians of our time.

And, you can’t unring a bell. Okay, so you’ve said the “thing” to a friend, family member, or co-worker that you wish you hadn’t said. Maybe you were well-intentioned, and perhaps there was even truth in what you said, but your tone and choice of words were not ready for prime time and definitely won’t appear on your highlight reel at the pearly gates of heaven.

Not sure how many of you have seen Jonah Hill's new Netflix documentary with his therapist, Dr. Phil Stutz. In candid conversations, Hill wanted to highlight Dr. Stutz's wise psychological practices and tools so he could expose them to a larger audience.

In 2020, Americans' membership in houses of worship dropped below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade polling of organized religion. 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque, down from 70% in 1999.

At the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, an inscription appears on a 17th-century stone basin that is the title of today’s blog post.

The Economist is one of my favorite magazines for the hammock. So much wit and wisdom in each issue, and they’ve usually got a finger in the wind for trendspotting.

When my co-founder Christine Sperber first told me that part of our workshop program would include having small pods of our compadres (what we call our workshop attendees) baking bread as a means of learning collaboration, I thought she was off her hippy-dippy rocker. But, as it turns out, it’s one of the beloved experiences of our 7-day workshops.