Tag: pretend

  • Make Good Art | Neil Gaiman | Commencement Speech

    This commencement speech is mandatory listening for anyone who hopes to be creatively successful. This is, quite possibly, the best commencement speech you will ever hear.

  • How To Beat Embarrassment

    Embarrassment is a mental game existing because of our interpretations of societal standards. It is totally self-contrived, self-maintained, self-perpetuated. Nobody enjoys being embarrassed. So get over it. I spent an afternoon in a workshop in India with close friends and sudo-strangers. We stared at each other, then moved to our right and stared at the…

  • Vulnerability and Connection

    In my continuing efforts and struggle to make sense of my very own existence, I invariably return to remarkably rudimentary, yet paramount questions. Why am I here? What must I do? And, how may I actualize these concepts, and increase the ratio of pleasure to pain in my life? My wonder, pursuit and search for…