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Cory Richards: The Color of Everything

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Cory Richards shocked the world when he abruptly ended his climbing career at the foot of Dhaulagiri in 2021. He is ready to tell his story. Introduction Perhaps no one has quit their job like my guest today, Cory Richards. Richards, still a world-renowned photographer, abruptly ended his career as an elite mountaineer in April …

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What Two Writers Taught Me About How to Think

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000

In 1949, a college junior named Barbara Beattie wrote a letter for a school journalism assignment. We can only speculate on Beattie’s youthful expectations: Was she so naive to expect a response, or were these different times? She’d written playwright Arthur Miller at a time when the Broadway run of his most famous work, The …

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All Work and No Play Makes You…Normal

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The concept of play conjures the image of my three-year-old (and blonder) self, plastic shovel in hand, amorphous stains down the front of my pants. And certainly slobber. Lots of slobber. That three-year-old was certainly not concerned with social hierarchy or status, lacking a whiff of ambition to put the best version of himself forward. …

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Uncertainty Is Forever (And That’s Good News)

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Uncertainty is a fact of life, yet we yearn for known outcomes. Every day we make decisions. Some decisions are small and inconsequential, while others are profound and life-altering. Sometimes events happen regardless of our decisions. And above it all and looming like a nervous wind is uncertainty. Uncertainty is forever. But those who learn …

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The Blue Dot Effect: Pessimism in a Beautiful World

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 08 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

As I’ve recently mused, financial independence won’t solve life’s problems. We will never “arrive.” We will never achieve perfection. An impactful 2018 study, nicknamed the Blue Dot Effect (a stand-in for the more lumbering “prevalence-induced concept change” title), helps us to understand the mind’s tendency toward finding problems, even where none exist. The results have …

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Lean Out: The Achievement Paradox with Dawn Baker

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Today on episode 57 I’m pleased to welcome Dawn Baker, a board-certified anesthesiologist, wife, mother, climber, coach, and now the author of a new book about the perils of, as she puts it, an intense need to achieve. And Dawn has walked the walk. After years of hard-driving pursuit of linear improvement in both career …

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Darrow Kirkpatrick: Beyond Doubt on the Colorado Trail

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Today on episode 55 I’m honored to welcome Darrow Kirkpatrick, former engineer, climber, investor, author, and the creator of the popular blog CanIRetireYet.com. Darrow began serious saving and investing in his mid-30s and retired at age 50 in 2011 from a career in software engineering. In this wide-ranging interview, we explore why Darrow stepped away …

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It’s Not All Hard Luck with Shay Skinner

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000

In her late teens and early twenties, Shay Skinner was disowned from her family. She struggled with crushing mental illness, which ultimately culminated in a suicide attempt that left her in financial ruin. From this dismal situation, Shay filed for bankruptcy and began a long and fruitful climb toward being whole again. How can we …

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The Shocking Truth About Sleep

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 17 May 2021 13:50:00 +0000

New research presents a natural solution to being smarter, stronger, slimmer, wealthier, more attractive, more likable, less anxious, depressed, and generally far healthier. Sounds dreamy, eh? Is there possibly a natural homeopathic method to improve all these arenas in life; some sort of fountain of youth? The answer is a resounding yes, and the solution …

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Emotional Fragility: Is This the New Normal?

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:35:00 +0000

Until the advent of the Scientific Revolution and the pronounced growth of technology and tools of human innovation, the vast majority of humans lived in squalid conditions of abject poverty. Picture your modern neighbor with three garages filled with late-model cars, his-and-her jet-skis, and a really impressive angle grinder. In 1437 this same middle-class citizen …

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