by Dan Jeffries | Oct 1, 2013 | Art, Books, Drugs, Uncategorized, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, News, Psychology, Reviews, Satori, TV |
Sometimes being a writer can ruin stories for you because you can see endings coming a mile away. Unfortunately, I sometimes forget this is not the case for my friends and I totally killed the Breaking Bad ending for a few folks by predicting every beat. Some people...
by Dan Jeffries | Sep 22, 2013 | Art, Uncategorized, Writing, Education, Psychology |
So, I just killed one of my favorite characters today. It’s done and she’s never coming back. As for me, I can’t write another word in that book right now. I need time to sit back, process it. After eight months of working up to the scene I saw it...
by Dan Jeffries | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized, Education, Enlightenment, Politics, Psychology |
We used to teach kids how to think in America. Now we don’t. The problem started with envy. We looked at other countries and saw their standardized test scores and we got nervous. We started to worry that we weren’t turning out enough math and science...
by Dan Jeffries | Apr 3, 2013 | Books, Science, Uncategorized, Education, Enlightenment, Reviews, Satori, World Events |
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything is probably the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read. In fact, it’s probably the best one ever written. The sheer amount of information in it is utterly staggering. It is so well researched that when...
by Dan Jeffries | Mar 16, 2013 | Education, Enlightenment, Psychology, Satori, Women |
Sometimes you just make a shift in life and you understand so much more about everything around you in an instant. You suddenly see clearly after years of being deaf and blind. When it happens, then you find yourself wanting to address all the things you’ve been...
by Dan Jeffries | Mar 10, 2013 | Art, Drugs, Science, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology |
One day I woke up and I was sick of being sick. And that one moment changed everything. Some of what I am going to tell you here will be like telling the ancient people that the world was actually round and not flat. Just come along for a little while and listen. ...
