Curtis McHale

Everyone makes mistakes. What separates people isn't that they made a mistake, it's what they do once they realize. You can own the failure and work to fix it, or you can reach for an excuse and pin the outcome on something else. I've watched both play out, in myself and in the people around me, and the choice says more about a person than the mistake ever could.

Lately I'm getting more done, but also dealing with more distraction — a pit I can't seem to climb out of. I wonder where all this productivity and distraction will lead me long-term.

How productive do you have to be to be productive enough? Where is the end of the quest for doing more faster?

The big problem is that we never define what is...

There really isn't a question that we work more today than we did 30 or 50 years ago. Heck the average farmer in the 1300s worked around 1500 hours a year to get food on the table, and today we work more than double that amount to scrape by1. I suppose the question i...

Default reactions are hard to overcome, precisely because they're our default response to whatever is coming our way. We have to take a moment to stop and do something different. Something outside our natural reaction.

Today is all about looking at our defaults and choosing something else.

Everything about our situation as humans pushes us to...