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Scott Bowman
May 12, 20237 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Apr 4, 20228 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Jul 5, 20216 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Dec 16, 20204 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Nov 19, 20206 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Sep 17, 20204 min read
“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...
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Scott Bowman
Aug 21, 20204 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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,...
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Scott Bowman
Jun 18, 20203 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
May 22, 20202 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Apr 16, 20206 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Mar 19, 20209 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Feb 14, 20205 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Jan 23, 20202 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Dec 12, 20193 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Oct 17, 20195 min read
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,...
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Scott Bowman
Sep 12, 20194 min read
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...
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Scott Bowman
Aug 15, 20193 min read
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...
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