A third space is sort of, admittedly, a fancy/pompous way of saying somewhere outside of work or your home. You’ll realize what I’m essentially saying is “you need air.” That’s how important a third space is. But let me first back it up and walk you through this. Your focus is one of the most precious commodities out there right now, along with your energy. What you pour your focus and energy into…
The Teams meetings were a drag this week. The usual chalkboard-inducing, high-pitched corporate talk. The phony smiles. Fake excitement about projects nobody actually cares about. And by the end of the call, I let out a loud, obnoxious sigh of relief. Though I wasn’t trying to be obnoxious. I felt like I’d just delivered my best Oscars performance. “I’m so excited!!!…" I nasily exclaimed. “I…
It’s 1992. And Bill Travers is analyzing three years of video footage from more than 100 zoos across North America, Europe, and the Far East. This footage would later, in 1993, be used for Born Free’s Zoochotic Report film. His observations would lead him to create a term that would increase awareness of this then-puzzling phenomenon: zoochosis.
What is doing nothing to you? If you were to pose this question to most people today, many would define “doing nothing” as anything that does not generate money. Time without financial return is treated as a waste of time. Rest is only justified if it leads back to output. And hobbies are tolerated only when they can be optimized, branded, or monetized, which sadly has happened to me numerous…