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The year I turned 43, I reached a major crossroad. A cliff jumper and one-time rescue swimmer, I had inexplicably developed panic attacks in the water. They came for me as if I was a spiritual criminal. They seized personal attributes and locked me up with a reckoning that demanded to know what I was ...
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The year I turned 43, I reached a major crossroad. A cliff jumper and one-time rescue swimmer, I had inexplicably developed panic attacks in the water. They came for me
December 21, 2025
A lifetime of being in and around the film, television and journalism worlds has made me appreciate both how difficult it is to get movies and television programs made and
December 20, 2025
Given that I wrote about the evolving brain yesterday, I wanted to share some new brain science with you that’s summed up in this recent article. There is something deeply
December 19, 2025
According to a sweeping 2025 study from Cambridge, our brains actually pass through five distinct life-stage epochs — childhood, extended adolescence, adulthood, early aging, and late aging — with major
December 18, 2025
The more complicated the world gets, the more wisdom we need. Knowledge is in your phone. Wisdom is in your gut, but we have precious few schools or practices to
December 17, 2025
The “Don’t Die” movement has a certain blunt appeal—optimize everything, control every variable, outrun mortality through metrics. Bryan Johnson is its poster child: disciplined, regimented, tracked to the decimal. Admirable?
December 16, 2025
When I was in high school, shortcuts showed up as Cliff Notes and Evelyn Wood speed-reading classes—promising smarter, faster versions of ourselves without the messy middle. Today’s shortcuts are far
December 15, 2025
If you’re in the second half of life, you’ve already earned a kind of wisdom that younger versions of you couldn’t have imagined. You know what matters. You’ve lived enough
December 14, 2025
How we start the year and what rituals we welcome into our lives can have a profound influence on how we experience our year. That’s why Teddi Dean (and I)
December 13, 2025
So we listened. This year, we’re launching a new format at MEA Santa Fe: powerful 3- and 4-night workshops designed for those who want the essence of MEA in a
December 12, 2025
On November 30, the New York Times offered an Op-Ed from Cathi Hanauer with the title of today’s blog post. Cathi co-founded the NYT “Modern Love” with her husband Daniel
December 11, 2025
If I had to distill midlife into a single insight, it’s this: wisdom is simply evolution put to work—the ability to turn experience into better decisions. Not the decisions we
December 10, 2025
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