Yoann Bourgeois’ startling choreography with trampoline explores the space “between flying and falling”, a subject close to our hearts.
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Meditation 101: Failure is Actually Success
This 2-minute video is the perfect guide to meditation for beginners and the meditation-averse. It gives a simple method and the science of why meditating for five minutes daily will change your life. And unlike anything else in your life, in meditation, ‘failure’ is actually success.
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Jalabert Camille’s ‘Fuel’ Will Brighten Your Day
(Video link here.) Really funny and totally sweet, this teeny film by 3rd year film student Jalabert Camille will make you feel just fine about just about any misstep, mess-up or irritant you encounter today. It takes Samuel Beckett’s famous lines about failure to an extraordinary place…
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Why A Skateboarder Fell (Failed) 160 Times for a Single Flight
In last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Bret Anthony Johnston described the video a friend made for him on his 41st birthday, of him falling off his skateboard nearly 160 times during his four-year quest to successfully execute a trick. Falling is a wonderful description of the grueling process of mastery that we’ve so often written about using a…
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The New 10 Commandments and A Few More
We recently came across this tweet from God, with a new set of refreshing and useful commandments. Equally compelling, were tweets sent in response with suggestions for additional commandments. Here are some favorites:
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