by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
Evan Marshall is exceptional. There is no other way to describe him. From a young age, he knew what he wanted to do professionally, built a roadmap to get there, and by his early thirties had met every milestone with force and precision. He is disciplined, discerning,...
by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
Michael Jerome Kagan and Ryan Travis Woods ahead of the Jacob Collier performance at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Circa 2009, I sat in on a lecture about brain aging by Professor Mark Moss, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Chobanian...
by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
Principles as a Shared Language I have often said that principles are the Rosetta Stone to life’s many conundrums. What I mean is simple. The same truths quietly govern movement, relationships, technology, health, and identity. We just recognize them faster in domains...
by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
I have lost count of how many times I have watched well intentioned adults misread a behavior and rush to fix the wrong thing. This was one of those moments. The Problem That Was Easy to Name A high school teacher shared a frustration. One of her students, Roderick,...
by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
Robert the philosopher. Robert the wanderer. Robert the father. Robert the husband. Robert the artist. There is something deeply gratifying about being friends with extraordinary people. Robert Patrick Rondeaux is part of our tribe, our orbit, our constellation of...
by Health401k | Health401k® Reflections
How detaching goodness from recognition quietly reorganized my identity The social experiment that slowly shifted my identity did not begin as an experiment at all. Growing up, my sense of value was quietly tied to how people perceived me. How kind people thought I...
