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Los Angeles is a car culture. If you’re going two doors down to Chipotle, you hop in your car. (Calm down. Everyone here drives a Prius!) Regardless of where you live, though, most of us get around using a vehicle. Let’s say you want to go to the beach. Every day of the week, youRead more

Sometimes when a moment in the work falls perfectly into place, people will be tempted to say “That worked on so many levels!” It’s meant as a compliment, or recognition of someone’s skill, but I’ll tell you a little secret: no, it did not work on “so many levels”. At most, it worked on two.Read more

Commitment is an integral part of our lives. We hear it in our relationships: “Ugh. I wish he’d just commit already.” When an athlete is recruited by schools his decision is called a commitment. When we need to remember something important – in the old days, it was the phone number of our high schoolRead more

Yoga is a metaphor for all aspects of living. It means union with self. Or union with the Divine. So through the practice of yoga you are actually coming to know yourself. That’s what all living practices of any art form are about. It’s the art of living explored through a practice that gets youRead more

Perhaps it should be called “the people’s conundrum” because it’s basically human nature. You finally get what you’ve wanted for a long time and, like any new shiny plaything, once you’ve had it for a while, you get bored and want something else. That’s the nature of desire, and that’s also the trap. At oneRead more

We argue for many things. Our freedom. Our human rights, especially if they seem to be threatened. Affordable healthcare for all. We argue against many things. Donald Trump. His administration. Politicians. Members of Congress who do nothing for their constituents. Bigots and homophobes and all-around haters. We see arguments happening everywhere these days. But theRead more

I often get asked by actors, “What is my homework?” Obviously, if you’re doing a film that takes place in 1917 and is based on a true story of what happened during the Communist Russian Revolution, and you’re playing a famous Bolshevik revolutionary ”“ then duh! of course you’re going to do your homework. ButRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. Here’s two ways to get there (in addition to last week’s lesson about the unknown). 1) Give Up the Blame Game. The energy that you give to the things you’re blaming is the energy thatRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. It’s scary, I know. But that’s just the physics of life itself. It’s so constructed that it asks us to embrace that which we can’t understand fully unless we go into the place that revealsRead more

  You can see Part 1 of this lesson HERE. 5. Look at how much you’ve grown and accomplished this year. I know it’s hard to believe at times because we engage in this insanely soul-crushing illusion of compare-and- despair-ism that renders us always ineffectual and less than. It might be one of the mostRead more