About Tim

What is a good life?

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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