Context Comes Before Learning

Day 73 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge A few years ago, my wife and I decided to go see a movie at the theater. We hadn’t heard anything about it. Didn’t read a review. Didn’t watch a trailer. Just picked one and sat down. It was horrible. We walked out in the middle of … Continue reading Context Comes Before Learning

The Robbie Hart Insight

Day 70 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I went to college on a full music scholarship. Bass baritone. Show choir. The whole deal. Singing and dancing literally paid for my education. I sang in everything I could find — college choir, a professional chorale that was just starting up, church worship teams, a summer-long … Continue reading The Robbie Hart Insight

Flow and Stock

Day 65 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I started reading Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work today. To me, he sounds like a modern-day Seth Godin — an artist who’s figured out how to say, very poignantly, not just how he found success, but how he built it. And he shares it in a way … Continue reading Flow and Stock

1,200 Letters

Day 62 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller tells the story of the first time he met Bob Goff. Miller and his friends had been paddling through an inlet somewhere near British Columbia when they came across a house tucked back in the water — a … Continue reading 1,200 Letters