With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.