My friend Rebecca is on fire. She founded a new band and a new sound, and it’s got her so fired up and excited, it’s hard for her to think of anything else. She’s my peer mentor and we talk every few weeks, and the last time we Skyped I …
I come from Japan, where they value hard work and diligence more than Americans do. I have been to a number of countries but I haven’t seen a culture with more rigorous work ethic than Japan. But I say that with mixed feelings because I don’t believe that all that hard work …
In Michael Brown’s book The Presence Process I learned the new way to look at the concept of surrender. I used to think of it as giving up. Accepting things as they are and not attempting to change. For example, surrendering meant I would accept my mediocrity as a a guitarist and …