Right Attitudes

Many businesses are built not from insight but from refusal. The refusal to accept that something broken is simply how things are. Kemmons Wilson (1913–2003) dropped out of high school to support his family and never stopped building. A popcorn machine in a Memphis theater. Cigarette machines across the city. A homebuilding business and movie […] Wondering What Else To Read?

Positive thinking has a marketing problem. It gets sold by people who smile through everything, insisting good vibes are the strategy. A useful idea ends up dismissed along with the people peddling it. What actually works looks nothing like that. When something goes wrong, you’ll feel it. That’s not weakness, that’s honest accounting. Charlie Munger […] Wondering What Else To R...

When attention collapses entirely inward, the mind becomes a prison of repetition. Worries replay without resolution. Self-criticism resurfaces in the same forms. Familiar narratives run on a loop, and the inner voice grows louder and more absolute—until it feels less like a voice and more like the walls. Most people assume the solution is to […] Wondering What Else To Read?

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.—Susanne Langer (American Philosopher, Writer) The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better—it is just turning around as usual.—Finley Peter Dunne (American Humorist) A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of […]

Someone describes a hard week, a troubling diagnosis, or a relationship unraveling. Before they finish, you recognize something familiar and jump in: I had the same thing. Here’s what I did. The intention is connection. The effect is deflection. Their moment is returned to them, slightly diminished. Psychologists call this conversational narcissism: the habit of […] Wondering W...