About Tim

What is a good life?

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I’m a teacher and a writer obsessed with the good life. This isn’t to say I’m always look­ing for a good time. What dri­ves me is just to under­stand it, to deter­mine what it really means live a great life in this day and age?

As Daniel Gilbert writes in Stum­bling on Hap­pi­ness, we act really dif­fer­ently on an aver­age day than we would if knew it was our last day to live. But this dif­fer­ence isn’t because we’re miss­ing the point. It’s just that we’re respon­si­ble peo­ple and there are dishes to wash.

But what could be worse than wak­ing up the morn­ing of your 100th birth­day and real­iz­ing that you should have lived dif­fer­ently? I sup­pose not wak­ing up at all would be worse. Maybe. So this is my per­sis­tent inter­est, to make sure I’m always mov­ing closer to a bet­ter idea about what my life can be.

I’ve read most of what’s avail­able on the sub­ject, gone to school for 22 years and I have trav­elled around the world (to 70+ coun­tries) look­ing for peo­ple who can help me on this jour­ney. This blog is where I share my notes.

Life­craft

The term Life­craft is an homage to Bushcraft, which is the study of how to sur­vive and thrive in the nat­ural world. There is a British man named Ray Mears who has spent most of this life trav­el­ling and learn­ing the sur­vival secrets of the abo­rig­i­nal and other native people.

You might not be lost in the for­est, with­out matches to build a fire, but you may be stuck in an office in need of an idea to ignite your day. And we can all benifit from insights into how to approach our fam­ily life and our finances.  My approach to empha­sizes exper­i­men­tal­ism and the shar­ing of sto­ries and art.

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    hyy Mr woods how u doin? we miss u a lot sir..how is the mrs? every body in your class is doing good and we just working on unit 37 every one shouted hayy MR woods na dtake care keep in contact and janabha says hello on her won
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