The best way to understand who I am is to understand the questions that I obsess over:
- What if we all knew what we truly cared about?
- What if we deliberately structured our lives around those things we actually care about?
- What if we constantly questioned what is necessary (and even what we think we want)?
- What does philosophy and science have to say about living better?
- What if we didn't tolerate having our attention dictated by forces outside our control?
- How can we leverage our strengths into a life we actually enjoy living?
I have a lot of questions and far less answers. The biggest two questions -- and the ones that I think about the most -- are:
How can we do everything a little bit better?
What does "better" even mean?
As you can see I have a lot of questions. I spend a lot of time thinking, and writing, about my quest to understand all of these. My studies as a positive developmental psychology graduate student help. The time I spent as a high school social studies teacher certainly helped me clarify my thinking on some of these. I got a further glimpse of a few as a college hockey head coach. Despite my experiences, however, I still feel like I'm at the bottom of a mountain with slippery shoes and a hand-me-down pickaxe.
In additon to my writing and coaching, I'm involved with a couple of other projects:
And I love having conversations with people who care about the answers to these questions on Twitter, Facebook, or Google +.