Even though Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has been performing for 57 years, he admitted in a new Guitar World interview to still getting stage fright. He also revealed that bandmate Jerry Garcia had the same crippling fear, arguing that it could have led to his death after years of a stage-fright triggered heroin addiction. […]
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I’m often inspired by the talks David Lynch Foundation CEO Bob Roth gives prior to his daily meditations, one of which was about the locus of control concept. As your environment changes, failure or success can be attributed to factors that you can control or ones that are beyond your control. Which one you choose
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A lot of founders forget that being a great leader and a great manager are both important. But they tend to have this excuse that since they’re leaders, they don’t have to be great managers. Just as much as you need to show excellent leadership, you also need to be a great manager for the
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One of several positive midterm election stories that have emerged is that voters in two states embraced the idea of psychedelics as a more viable treatment for various forms of mental illness. It comes at a time when psilocybin in particular has been gaining traction to treat severe depression, PTSD and substance abuse. Oregonians greenlit
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Misconceptions about the nature of gig work abound. A recent blog sheds light on this, while also noting an interesting evolution in workplace priorities. Most people think that gig jobs involving grocery delivery or ridesharing, but actually 69% of them are related to IT and software, as well as accounting and finance. That’s followed by
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The thought of having health insurance cover psychedelic treatments sounds pretty out there. But the idea was floated at a recent conference – and for good reason. There are now clinical trials on psilocybin and MDMA with very promising early-stage results. Given at low doses, these hallucinogenic substances are solving the most difficult to treat
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For many people, the journey to oneself is a road less traveled. It doesn’t cost anything but the price you have to pay to reach your destination involves breaking free from your programs and patterns and crushing your ego. These are things that not a lot of people could easily afford to do. But once
A new biography of King Charles III has revealed some information that at once can be seen as embarrassing, comical and even callous. The newly minted king’s former valet, Michael Fawcett, was in charge of caring for the then-Prince of Wales’s favorite teddy bear from childhood. And so anytime it needed mending, he would call
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Feeling a bit off this past week or? You’re not alone. It could be from turning back the clocks an hour when daylight saving time (DST) morphed back to standard time. Thinking we all got an extra hour of sleep is a fallacy and actually can be harmful to our health. The cumulative effect of
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I recently came across a fascinating study of 3,684 people suggesting that meditation might actually serve as an opening to paranormal experiences. The conclusion was that avid meditators are more accepting of the unknown or unseen, and they’re more likely to have experienced paranormal activity compared to non-meditators. The research hit close to home. I’ve
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