Monthly Archives: August 2015

I have a little girl who’s growing fast. It’d be great if more people spoke to her like this.

To start you on your way here’s three questions I learned from Charles Poliquin on the Tim Ferriss Podcast.

1. What have you done to help someone today?
2. What has someone done nice for you today or to help you out?
3. What did you learn?

I’ve been asking Alba questions like this everyday since she could talk. But these three questions are easy to remember and make a habit. I got thoughtful answers today. You will too.

My take is: ask your kid better questions and you’ll get better answers, and raise a great kid who contributes to the world.

There is always a way to do something. A way that gets it done.

But then there is the craftsman’s way — the thoughtful way. The way that takes time, practice and more time. Few people appear to want to put in the time to become a craftsman.

Why not? Why are people, young people, in such a rush to do but not to learn how to be while they do?

This was not always the case. It may be that it’s not easy to focus on one thing, when the world is distraction.

But there is a way to dice an onion, or there is the Jeremy Fox way.