You Are a Badass

4. DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL Look around and see what other people out there are doing. Whose life makes you totally jealous? Wha ...

get to travel the world? Is it that they have a solid routine? Is it that they have no routine? Is it that they work alone? That ...

5. DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE THUNDERBOLT HYPE I think one of the most paralyzing misconceptions is that we’re all supposed to h ...

have that one, big, perfect thing that you know you came here to do (same goes for finding the one, big, perfect soul mate, BTW) ...

6. LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION If you really want to get in touch with who you are and what you love to do, and who you love to do ...

wait to hear from your inner guidance. You have all the answers you need, you just need to give them the chance to get through t ...

or when you’re pretending to listen to someone really boring talk your ear off? Are you onstage doing stand-up comedy in front o ...

there and ridiculous they may seem, they mean something to us, and usually represent our biggest and best versions of ourselves. ...

it, so why couldn’t you? Much of the time we pretend we aren’t clear on what our calling is when what’s really going on is that ...

8. LOVE YOURSELF Like you’re the only you there is. ...

CHAPTER 9: LOINCLOTH MAN It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French au ...

Utah with two longtime friends of mine. It’s one of the most magnificent and bizarre places I’ve ever been: giant, jagged, obsce ...

climbing around on boulders and arguing over which eagle or snake or mountain goat should be awarded Creature of the Day. Becaus ...

wearing nothing but a loincloth and a headband. He was holding a spear, too. Said he’d been living in the canyon for thirteen ye ...

in one of my stakes, I looked through my legs and saw a pair of tanned feet in homemade sandals, strong, naked legs, and a dead ...

and appeared to be made out of soft Italian leather, not some ratty canyon rabbit. Would you mind handing that to me so I can ha ...

very matter-of-factly that he found modern society unnecessarily complicated and misguided, so much so that he preferred to live ...

bedspread. “Good for him,” I thought as I watched him walk away, swinging his squirrel like a purse. He wasn’t worrying about wh ...

PART 3: HOW TO TAP ...

INTO THE MOTHERLODE ...