On staying with what’s here when we really don’t want to When I started writing this, I didn’t really want to write.It took a lot just to sit down and begin, so it already felt like a small success just to get the first sentence out.Some of the best lines come when you don’t want… Read more: Life with the Current

If you are not prepared for the hard thing, given the opportunity, you’ll go for the easy option. Case in point: me. I intend to do this writing—the hard thing—and then I click on my browser and YouTube wants to tell me about F1, the easy thing. No disrespect towards the easy action. For some… Read more: Choosing the Hard Thing

It’s been an unusually busy year for me—taking on a full year of both study and work. Feels like I’ve been mastering the art of juggling tasks and life. But even though, objectively, there are more things to get done, it’s not like I don’t have the time to do them. It’s my relationship with time that… Read more: The Myth of Not Enough Time

A Place to Make Mistakes Every day, you and I wake up to endless opportunities to do things differently. And yet, with all this freedom, we keep doing the same things—same behaviours, over and over. And so we should. That’s just how personality works; by definition, it’s comprised of patterns, and patterns are predictable and… Read more: The Art of getting it wrong

Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist and musician, has long explored the deep connections between music and the brain. His work suggests that music is more than entertainment—it is medicine. Just as pharmaceuticals interact with neurochemistry to heal the body and mind, music influences neural pathways, reducing stress, enhancing mood, and even alleviating pain. Levitin’s research highlights… Read more: Music as Medicine: How Sound Transforms Us