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Living The Writer’s Life 23 Jul 2013 | 10:13 pm
I’ve put in my 10,000 hours at being a neurotic writer. Now I want to share what I’ve learned with you! I’ve decided I want to teach a course called “Living The Writer’s Life” This won’t be focused...
What is Wife Worship? 12 May 2013 | 02:16 pm
Today, May 12th, is my 36th birthday. Today marks the beginning of a new journey for me and my wife. It’s the beginning of our career teaching together. Above is the first video we’ve ever shared of u...
The Meme of the Earth: Ayahuasca and the Future of Humanity – A Conversation With Daniel Pinchbeck 23 Mar 2013 | 04:17 am
I recorded the inaugural episode of The Michael Ellsberg Show while sitting at home shooting the shit about ayahuasca—the visionary indigenous plant hallucinogen—with my friend Daniel Pinchbeck, autho...
Are You Resisting Marketing Yourself? If So, This is Why… 13 Mar 2013 | 10:11 pm
Are you resisting marketing/selling yourself or your business? If the answer is yes, ask yourself this: “Do I feel nourished (financially and emotionally) by my transactions with my clients/customers?...
First-Order Sanity, Insanity, and Second-Order Sanity 12 Mar 2013 | 01:33 am
First-order sanity is when you believe only one thing on a topic, despite there being many possible beliefs about it. This is a very grounded way to live. (Fundamentalists, for example, are deeply gro...
The White-Pages Test of Your Hourly Fee 12 Mar 2013 | 12:56 am
While I don’t advocate quoting your freelance services by the hour (project-based or monthly retainer are much better models), it is still useful to know your “hourly rate”–roughly what you want to ge...
The The Law of Diminishing Returns of Hanging Out With the Same Kind of People 11 Mar 2013 | 01:46 am
If you hang out with a bunch of hippie freaks or New Age spiritual people most of the time, you’ll learn more about life by going and hanging out with some hard-core rationalists sometime. If you’re a...
Take your bucket list, rip it up, and burn the shreds in a fire of liberation 11 Mar 2013 | 01:37 am
Here’s the one fucking thing you should do before you die: Open your heart so wide it could kill you.
How to Not Be a Victim of Your Own Success 11 Mar 2013 | 01:29 am
The more I hang around people who are successful in various ways, and the more of the success I dreamed about in my 20s comes into my life now, the more I am convinced of the reality of “victim of one...
A hot bod does not attract emotional maturity 11 Mar 2013 | 01:24 am
Nor does a fat wallet. Emotional maturity attracts emotional maturity.
