Chip Conley
What’s Trending? Smart, Intelligent, or Wise?
My friend Seth Godin introduced me to Ngram that tracks words used in books over the last 200 years. Here’s what a million authors and a billion readers think. He then wrote a blog post about what’s trending: smart, generous, or kind. Kindness wins.
Your New Year’s Resolution: Learning How to Learn.
An MEA alum recently asked me, “What could be my most powerful resolution for 2021?” I told him that “learning how to learn” would offer him huge collateral benefits. The magic of our MEA workshop curriculum is just that.
Lovely Day.
A year is made up of days. A day is made up of minutes. You can influence your year by choosing how you invest those minutes. I recommend you invest four minutes and 25 seconds watching this video that MEA alum Joey Del Hierro sent me that reminds us, even in a quarantined pandemic, beautiful music can be made.
Moving from BC to AC.
A caterpillar consumes. A chrysalis transforms. A butterfly pollinates.
Goodbye, 2020.
In college, I had back to back “Hell Weeks,” one as a freshman on the national champion water polo team and one as a pledge in my fraternity. A week felt like a year. Well, this year felt like a decade.
Entrepreneurs, Baby Sea Turtles are Your Teachers!
As depicted in this video I shot just down the beach from MEA a few days ago, baby sea turtles can be our entrepreneurial mentors in a pandemic. Climbing out of a hole. Trusting intuition. Creating some momentum. Getting stuck in sandtraps. Resilience. Taking time to rest.
Death as an Organizing Principle for Life. Part 2.
As detailed in Part 1 of this interview yesterday, Dr. Danny received the news that he has terminal cancer, a grade 4 glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of primary brain cancer. This interview is meant to shine the light on the lessons Danny is experiencing in the 30+ days since he received his diagnosis as, while it’s impossible to predict his end of life, averages would suggest 15 months.
Death as an Organizing Principle for Life. Part 1.
Dr. Daniel (Danny) Friedland is a guest faculty member of MEA and the author of “Leading Well from Within,” which focuses on the science of practice of Conscious Leadership. He’s one of the most delightful humans I’ve ever met and a real mensch.
Today is a Gift.
Christmas can be a joyous or lonely day. This year, we’re likely experiencing it in an unfamiliar way, connected by screens, wondering about vaccines. My gift to you is this six-minute video by my friends, Louie Schwartzberg and Brother David.
The Art of Happiness.
My friend Arthur Brooks, who is working on a book on the curse of success based upon many of the principles we talk about at MEA (challenge of letting go of one’s identity, being defined by ego), has a podcast called The Art of Happiness based upon his exceptionally popular Harvard University class.
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