Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
– Oscar Wilde
For all the writing I do about social skydiving, the vast majority of my interactions with women don’t go any further than our initial conversation. In fact, sometimes they barely get beyond “Hi”. I’ve talked to hundreds of women in the past year, but I’ve [...]

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
– e.e. cummings
It’s the best and the worst advice: Just Be Yourself.
Worried about your job interview later today? Don’t [...]

Don’t you hate when you’re out at a social gathering and you’re the only person sitting at the table who isn’t part of the conversation? Every time you try to say something you seem to get interrupted or ignored. And the more you try to take part, the more awkward things get. So you stare [...]

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
– George Gissing
Wow. That girl who just walked over to the frozen food section is [...]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
– Albert Einstein
I’m pretty geeky. I [...]

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
– Howard Thurman
Life is meant to be an adventure. If your life is anything less than interesting and inspiring to other people, you’re doing something [...]

I’ve travelled all over the world, from New York to Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo. I’ve had the privilege of working with brilliant minds. A few years ago I learned French, and mastered the language well enough to speak in horrible slang with a fully authentic accent. I bought my first house [...]