Another Reason to Try Adventure …

by Lane Wallace

An article published in this week’s “Science Times” (the New York Times weekly science section), illuminated yet another reason to take on adventure (see my home page at LaneWallace.com for more on how I use and mean that word).
More specifically, a reason to take on adventure … with your spouse/significant other/partner.
Adventure, of course, offers all [...]

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A Word About Romantics

by Lane Wallace

One more note from my interview with Story Musgrave (see previous post).
I have never really considered myself a romantic. Romantics, to my way of thinking, were fuzzy-headed dreamers who imagined Prince Charming would come rescue them, or that love conquered all. If I’d had to say, I would have said that I was a realist. [...]

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Are Explorers Born That Way?

by Lane Wallace

A few days ago, NASA celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope launch. Ironically, nobody much remembers the 1990 launch. What they remember is the big post-launch “Ooops” when NASA realized that the primary mirror of the telescope was flawed, and the legendary 1993 Shuttle mission that repaired the telescope, finally giving it the [...]

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Freedom Writers Ride Again

by Lane Wallace

It is not easy to be a teacher. I know this in part because I remember being a teenager who thought I knew a whole lot more than most of my teachers, at least about some things. And I know this in part because my sister is a teacher. She works long days, brings work [...]

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Why We Need Risk

by Lane Wallace

This Outside magazine cover story, highlighting CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, was not quite what I expected, given its title. I thought it would be a discussion of why, as humans, we need a certain amount of risk in our lives—possibly including Cooper’s take on the subject.
So I was a little disappointed to discover, upon [...]

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Escape Routes

by Lane Wallace

When David Roberts was young, he was all about the physical challenge and thrill of mountain climbing. Which is, I suppose, how it should be. I don’t know if nature kindly allows us to compensate for reduced physical ability as we age by driving us to notice and desire other components to adventure besides sheer [...]

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The Dangers of Disconnecting

by Lane Wallace

So, there’s good news and bad news, when it comes to making our lives more rewarding, sane, and happy. The good news is, humans are incredibly adaptable. If you change life circumstances on us, we may fear that we won’t be able to handle it or adapt, but the truth is, we adapt far better [...]

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Task Saturation, Ruthless Ignorance, and the Power of Focus

by Mike Singer

Guest Post
I have noticed that I’m most productive when I’m about to go on a trip. I abandon all of my complex “productivity tools” (Outlook, an online collaboration tool called Basecamp, some really cool apps on my iPhone) and just scribble down a quick list of all the things that I have to do before [...]

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The Job You Make

by Lane Wallace

Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. It’s also apparently the mother of entrepreneurship.
The New York Times ran an article last week noting that one of the fastest-growing segment of entrepreneurs is people aged 55-64. The number of people in that age group who are self-employed has grown 52% from 2000 to 2007. [...]

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Adventures In Music and Flight: Interview with Jeremy Constant

by Lane Wallace

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A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a man named Jeremy Constant, who’d just made the first flight [...]

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