Tools, Fuel, & Steering Instructions
to Make a Life You Believe In
“There is no such thing as a unicorn, little boy.” This is what’s called a falsifiable hypothesis, a claim that can be proven false. Failure of this hypothesis would be the production of a unicorn. Conversely, the hypothesis, “Unicorns exist,” is not falsifiable. You cannot prove this claim false because, even if there are no
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I was with my daughter at a film festival which had been sponsored by Chipotle, and the following commercial played at the beginning of every show. (Watch it in a minute.) It’s beautifully produced, nostalgic, and powerfully, vaguely inspiring, and after four or five views through the weekend, it grew a little tiresome. Then on
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You’ve seen us wearing the goggles, making our declarations, and helping each other do something big that really matters. They almost always do their magic, and they only cost the postage rate when you send them on to the next Pilot. It’s time to ask for your pair and join us. Get the goggles
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I now carry my entire life’s plan everywhere I go. Written in pencil on 17 3×5 cards, it’s the most efficient form of the Simple System for Everything. You can do it too, easily. Here is what it does for me. It holds a condensed code to my most important aspirations. It reminds me who
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It was one of the best and worst days. I don’t know why what happened happened. The thought of a day alone on the beach with my aspirations for the new year bubbling up in my stomach made me giddy. I grabbed the giant umbrella and lawn chair from under the stairs along with some
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I don’t like opera that much. I swoon to Jussi Björling’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, but that’s about it. I’ve never seen an opera in its entirety. That’s why it might seem odd that I’m singing in one, and I think you should, too, at some point soon. Here’s why, in story and list form.
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“David, your Simple System for Everything works for everything!” That was the crowd’s undulating chant at the colosseum right before I hushed them for the grand finale— something about online dating as I recall. It was the Great Year Workshop of 2014, and everything was just dandy until a bold voice called from the dusty
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“I can’t get your face out of my mind and the taste of your skin lingers still. I want you to meet me tonight just outside your backdoor. Bring your haunting imagination, your big laugh, and your silky eyes. I’ll bring my open chest cavity and a fist full of spice. Make sure you level
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I pretty easily glom my free floating anxiety onto money worries when I lose touch with my One Number. In my case ignorance breeds fear. (I can be a Scaredy-cat.) I’ve seen even more often that ignorance breeds denial. More than a few of my friends have squandered inheritances leaving them back where they started pretty
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Things change. That’s about all I really know to be true. In the face of change it’s sometimes hard to know who you are any more or what you want from life because life keeps changing its conditions. My work with Pilot Fire is all about how to adapt to change, to actually invite it
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