Minute Of Silence With Greg In North Dakota

Aug 05, 2018, 8 comments, 19 smiles [At Gandhi 3.0, I met Greg, who kindly invited me to join speak at TedXFargo last week. At the end, he invoked all of you in gratitude, as we invited the sold-out audience of 2300 guests to engage in a minute of silence! I met some incredible people, including Greg's wife and daughter Harper! Below is the draft of my talk, not as delivered. :)] “MANOPAUSE & THE PERFORMANCE TRAP” I’m only 55, but I’ve already experienced five mid-life crises. Each of them was triggered by a desire to achieve something, to perform. (I’m having another one in front of you now.) My talk today is about “Manopause.” Actually, it’s about a man-on-pause, pondering in my 50s whether I am only as good as I perform. Manopause is different than a mid-life crisis. It’s more chronic. It feels more like an irritating detour or inconvenient passage into new state of Being, beyond doing ... Read Full Story