In two months I will have been writing on Medium for a year. I started with a lot to say and even more that I wanted to analyze. I have no plan on stopping in the near future. Yet, I do want to address a problem that I have been having and I'm sure... Continue Reading →

  Last week I watched a video highlighting the reasons why Anthony Hopkins is one of the greatest actors today. For one, when he reads a script, he will read it hundreds of times. He learns the part in its entirety. The only thing left is for him to feel the emotion he knows he is... Continue Reading →

One key piece of advice I always hear when writing - whether it be for my blog or for my job - is to implement the human element into what I write. We all have a basic understanding of what this means, yet it can still be hard to figure out what actions are best... Continue Reading →

For my hundredth blog post, I wanted to take the time to analyze one of my favorite things about people and that is one of our many psychological biases. Specifically today I have found another bias that relates to our assumptions we place on people and the situations they fall into. We tend to not... Continue Reading →

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything" (George Gernard Shaw). The current stance I am at in my life is causing me to feel baffled on what I should do next. I've started to understand that what it is I believe I should be doing can help me... Continue Reading →

"The truly creative people tend to be outliers" (Nolan Bushnell). I recently started reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, a book about success and how a lot of opportunity stems from relative chance. I purchased the book after seeing it in the Psychology section of a Barnes n Noble and thought it looked interesting. Later, after taking... Continue Reading →

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" (T. S. Eliot). It seems that today people are more ok with blaming something dumb they did or thought on their anxiety. While most if not all of us have anxiety, we seem to pretend anxiety is a problem but one we all inherit and have to deal with.... Continue Reading →

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the... Continue Reading →

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along" (Paramahansa Yogananda). Self-awareness is one thing and self-improvement is another. We understand how our perception of ourselves might sometimes be skewed and other times fairly accurate. We try and improve how we see things and... Continue Reading →