Soul Pancake – one of my all time favorite websites – has launched a new video series, this one on success: what we mean by it, where we see it, how we define it. This last question – how do you define success? – is the topic of the first video they’ve posted. It’s all of 2 and a half minutes and beyond being quite fun – as so many Soul Pancake endeavors are (think “Kid President”!) – it’s a great question for each of us to ask ourselves. Because our definition of success – whether we’ve articulated it consciously or not – shapes decisions about how we spend our time, who we spend our time with, what we’re...

I love big questions. Questions about meaning, existence, purpose. I love big questions. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not that I believe I can answer them, just that I love struggling with them. 🙂 That wasn’t always the case, though. When I was a freshman in college and looking at required courses, I shied away from the intro. to philosophy course because I couldn’t imagine spending all my time trying to answer questions to which there are no answers. As a tribute – or, I suppose, a critique, depending on your point of view (though I mean it as a tribute 🙂 ) – to my liberal arts education at Franklin & Marshall College,...