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“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” ~Terry Pratchett Destiny is a peculiar animal. It’s a Gordian Knot of fate, luck, and chance with a Möbius strip of choice wrapped around it to give you a sense of agency. But how can you get better at negotiating the knot? How can you better navigate the strip? How can you get your sense of destiny in alignment with both reality and your sense of agency? Practicing heroism is a powerf

“You want weapons? Go to a library. Books are the best weapons in the world.” ~Doctor Who Books have a way of capturing us that movies...

“We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the...

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, and torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” ~Nietzsche Life is pain. Whether it’s the simple pain of failure, or the complex pain of death-anxiety. Whether it’s the simple pain of hunger, or the complex pain of wrestling with your demons. If you’re alive, and especially if you are living a life well-lived, you will experience pain. How you deal with this pain, and thus how you deal with failure, i