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The Many Ways of Being Lost and Found (pt. 1)
Ever felt lost before? It can be a challenging, scary or despairing feeling. It brings up a child’s panic separated from mom in a...
Scott Bowman
May 12, 20237 min read
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Visualization – BS or BFF?
Many a new age guru claim that “the secret” to getting the things you want is to “visualize” them – to see them clearly in your mind, to...
Scott Bowman
Apr 4, 20228 min read
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Getting ourselves to do things: Brute force vs. elegance
So when it comes to change, getting stuck projects moving or actually doing those things we SAY we are committed to (…anyone need to lose...
Scott Bowman
Jul 5, 20216 min read
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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Change
There’s a story I like to tell my clients, when they’re dealing with some of the aspects of change and how we integrate it. Classical...
Scott Bowman
Dec 16, 20204 min read
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What makes you think that will ever change?
I think a lot about the path of mastery. I have since I was a kid - ever since the first Shaolin Kung Fu movie masterpiece graced my path...
Scott Bowman
Nov 19, 20206 min read
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I gotta write these jokes…
I was thinking of this bit that Mitch Hedberg did… back when he was alive. (I think Mitch would have appreciated that addendum btw). If...
Scott Bowman
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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“You can ask better questions than that...”
I started reading Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferris recently. It was a christmas gift that did not fail to deliver, even in the first...
Scott Bowman
Sep 17, 20204 min read
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So... no bag?
In Sausalito there is a store that sells socks. Just socks. It’s called Soxalitio. (See what they did there?) In this sock(s?) store...
Scott Bowman
Aug 21, 20204 min read
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Don’t ruin your movie with it
There’s a concept I learned in business school that’s really useful to keep in mind - it’s called Sunk Costs. If that sounds familiar,...
Scott Bowman
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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Stopping and Frog Jumps
Was thinking of a great lesson Tosh Stone taught me about stopping - which I do a lot. Tosh trained me in Kung Fu and... well, life I...
Scott Bowman
Jun 18, 20203 min read
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The stone is always the same distance from your face
Most of us (and here I mean those reading this) have done a lot of self-work. Or are working hard at improving in some other way. Facing...
Scott Bowman
May 22, 20202 min read
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Sexism done right...
I was 8 or 9 I think, when I first consciously saw sexism, though I had no idea what was going on at the time. I think my Mom was taking...
Scott Bowman
Apr 16, 20206 min read
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What is your problem? (How to ask the right question)
Ever ask yourself that question - ‘What IS my problem?’ I do. I seethe with it when I’m frustrated with myself. Or I’ll yell it at...
Scott Bowman
Mar 19, 20209 min read
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The most beautiful man I've ever met
One of the odder things I’ve done with my life was to live in a log cabin on a 60 acre guest ranch straddling a beautiful cove on the...
Scott Bowman
Feb 14, 20205 min read
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How to get lucky
I had some random thoughts on luck that I wanted to share with you. We tend to think of luck as the dice coming up seven, or the lottery...
Scott Bowman
Jan 23, 20202 min read
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Singing for your life
I’ve recently become addicted to the television show “The Voice.” …actually, do we even have “television” anymore? I haven’t had a TV...
Scott Bowman
Dec 12, 20193 min read
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My first day of school...
Recently I found out that my alma mater, BGI has closed. It took me a while to process this, but I wanted to share my first day of school...
Scott Bowman
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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Practice makes perfect - but it’s boring...
I just saw a 2 minute clip of Katelyn Ohashi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic7RNS4Dfo). Katelyn is... well, a gymnast I suppose,...
Scott Bowman
Oct 17, 20195 min read
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The best pebbles of the day...
Do you ever feel like a cliche? Sometimes I think Anna and I are just too cliche to live. She runs a healing practice teaching Reiki and...
Scott Bowman
Sep 12, 20194 min read
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Sometimes a heart is there to break
I’m listening to Erik Satie’s Gymnopies. Stunning little silhouettes of minimalism and longing. Remember George Winston? I took my first...
Scott Bowman
Aug 15, 20193 min read
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