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There’s a moment in an interview between Jerry Seinfeld and Howard Stern where Seinfeld offers a line that has been rattling around in my head ever since author Dan Pink mentioned it in a recent MEA workshop: “The blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with.” It’s funny. It’s uncomfortable. And ...
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Forgiving, though—that’s the real flex. Forgiveness is like hitting unsubscribe on resentment’s newsletter. You don’t condone the bad behavior, but you stop letting it drain your energy every time it
September 10, 2025
Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, and feminist whose landmark book The Second Sex helped ignite modern feminism. She herself embodied it — whether in her critiques
September 9, 2025
We all know introverts and extroverts. But what about the “worktrovert”? This isn’t exactly a workaholic, someone addicted to 80-hour weeks or climbing the corporate ladder in order to feel
September 8, 2025
Are lucky streaks more common during transitions? I believe they are. That’s very good news for those of us going through periods of change, which are more often known for
September 7, 2025
I went to MEA in Santa Fe to embrace change, lean into truth, and take a long, honest look at what still runs me and what I’m finally ready to
September 6, 2025
We live in a world where “ruin” is everywhere—lost jobs, trampled reputations, broken hearts, shrinking bank accounts, gray hairs arriving uninvited. But here’s the kicker: none of those things touch
September 5, 2025
When Lizzy Gilbert experienced her first MEA workshop a year ago, she told me, “Chippy, you need to bring my soul brother Rob Bell to lead a workshop.” To be
September 4, 2025
While it never won any Oscars, the film “The Intern” reminded us that experience never gets old. Robert DeNiro plays a 70-year-old retiree who wants to spice his life up
September 3, 2025
When I was a kid, I wrote movie reviews of everything from “The Wizard of Oz” to “The Exorcist.” While I had a few sports heroes as did my friends,
September 2, 2025
At the Modern Elder Academy, we learn that transformation rarely comes in a tidy package. More often, it arrives in the form of the messy middle—that liminal space where the
September 1, 2025
Last year, while celebrating both Thanksgiving and my 40th birthday, I had what I now call a quiet collapse. It wasn’t dramatic. No headlines, no breakdowns. Just a moment —
August 31, 2025
The raggedness of this post reflects the raggedness of mind that comes with acute grief. The piece below is written from a few fragments of my journal during this time.
August 30, 2025
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