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When we are unsure about what’s going on within or without, an irresistible urge for clarity comes knocking at the door. When that happens, some word-users seek solace in instant gratification such as pleasant sleep, pills, religion, playing cards, spectator sports, or other popular pastimes. Others seek solace in connecting with the wordless, also known as nature, watching a river flow, walking the dog, yoga, or fishing, to name a few. Long story short It

You can never learn less I learned about the Study-to-Action Ratio, SRA in short, about a dozen years ago, thanks to Jason Fladlien. Twelfe years ago, my SRA was 10:1 at best, meaning it was probably even worse than that. So, discovering the SRA blew my socks off, rocked the journey I was on at the time, and I’ve been grateful to Jason ever since. The Study-to-Action Ratio The SRA expresses the time spent on

Even though Even though in the beginning is the word. Even though everything we know is a word. Even though before the word nothing existed. Even though everything begins with the word. The story of words isn’t told when stories are told to a word-user’s child. The story of words isn’t told when stories are told at kindergarten. The story of words isn’t told when stories are told at school. The story of words isn’t

The key to productivity? Ignoring almost everything. Instead of spreading yourself thin, do less to achieve more. Unproductive vs productive word-users Unproductive word-users Chase every opportunity like a distracted squirrel. Jump at every notification like it’s an emergency. Try to be everywhere online but make no real impact. Jump onto every new shiny object like fleas jumping onto every new passing dog. Productive people Have a vision of where to arrive on purpose when all

The Carnival of the Animals is a musical about animals that talk and sing — lions, hens, roosters donkeys, tortoises, elephants, kangaroos, fish, cuckoos, swans and other kinds of birds — composed by Camille Saint-Saëns 139 years ago. The Carnival of the Animals is not alone. It is similar to Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, which features talking pigs, boars, horses, a donkey, sheep, dogs, chickens, cows, ravens, and cats. The two together are

If your smartphone told you you can reunite with an intelligence infinitely greater than yours, how would you react? Chill. Relax. It shan’t happen. Smartphones don’t know of any kind of intelligence not already embedded within. That’s not what smartphones are about, not what they’re programmed for. What if I told you there’s an intelligence infinitely greater than yours you can reunite with? How would you react? I don’t believe it. Fake news. Lemme think

This is not a funnel Picasso received at his studio a visitor that believed the latter’s paintings were abstract. So Picasso asked his visitor in turn if he had a photo of his family to show him. When Picasso saw the photo he asked “Are they really that small?” Similarly, Allen Jones, the sculptor, explained “when you look at my sculptures of women, there is no doubt it’s a sculpture, it’s not a woman.” On

When we say tongue When we talk of tongue, we talk of mother tongue (langue maternelle in French and Muttersprache in German, to name two tongues other than English). Although fathers also come equipped with tongues, I’ve never heard of a father tongue. Have you? Mother tongue is okay but mother langue doesn’t exist. That’s because langue is French for tongue and 475 years ago, when modern English was invented, langue didn’t get translated from