Richard Kronenberg

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

I had the pleasure to be a guest on the @4KidsFlashback
with @TaraSandsVO and @SteveYurko . So much fun reminiscing about my time with the company; great memories and even greater people. #4KidsFlashback #4Kids https://t.co/gIhY4HnR08

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

- A NEW LEAF (1971) | New 4K Restoration | Friday, June 26 at 9pm and Sunday, June 28 at 3:30pm

Elaine May directed one of the all-time great debut features with this seminal two-hander, tender and cynical in equal measure, starring Walter Matthau as a broke playboy who sets his sights on a wealthy odd-bird botany professor (May) and plans to give her the Bluebeard treatment.

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

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[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

I had the pleasure to be a guest on the @4KidsFlashback
with @TaraSandsVO and @SteveYurko . So much fun reminiscing about my time with the company; great memories and even greater people. #4KidsFlashback #4Kids https://t.co/gIhY4HnR08

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

@CollinRugg Legend

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m increasingly convinced that emotional control is the ultimate sign of personal growth. The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life.

[Jo Coyne @Jopolkadot]

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in”

Ernest Hemingway

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

One of my favorites

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone should read this story…

A monk goes out on a boat in a small lake to meditate.

After a few hours of uninterrupted silence, he suddenly feels the jarring impact of another boat bumping into his.

While he does not open his eyes, he feels the irritation and anger building within him.

“Why would someone do that? Can’t they see me here? How dare they disturb my meditation?”

He opens his eyes, ready to shout at the person in the other boat, only to realize that it is empty. It had come untied from the dock and was floating in the middle of the lake.

In that moment, his anger and frustration disappears.

After all, you can’t be angry at an empty boat.

The story offers a powerful lesson, which I call the Empty Boat Mindset:

In life, you’re going to experience countless collisions. With people. With environments. With chance circumstances outside your control.

Each of these collisions will threaten to derail you. To stoke the fire of anger, stress, and frustration. To knock you off your path.

The truth is that the negative emotions that grow inside you are rarely from the collision itself, but from your perception of the negative intent behind the collision.

If you convince yourself that every collision is a deliberate action by a bad actor, negative emotions will control your entire life.

In others words, your interpretation of the collision creates your own poison.

The Empty Boat Mindset is the reminder that most of these collisions you experience in life are with an empty boat.

There is no negative intent. There is no desire to harm. They are simply the random collisions of objects floating along on the lake of life.

Interestingly, when you embrace the Empty Boat Mindset, you reassume control over your own boat.

You’re no longer prone to the spiraling emotional effects of chance collisions. You are a seasoned explorer, ready to adapt to whatever the seas throw your way.

So, the next time you feel a collision and find your negative emotions growing, pause and ask yourself a simple question:

Am I just getting angry at an empty boat?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone should read this story…

A monk goes out on a boat in a small lake to meditate.

After a few hours of uninterrupted silence, he suddenly feels the jarring impact of another boat bumping into his.

While he does not open his eyes, he feels the irritation and anger building within him.

“Why would someone do that? Can’t they see me here? How dare they disturb my meditation?”

He opens his eyes, ready to shout at the person in the other boat, only to realize that it is empty. It had come untied from the dock and was floating in the middle of the lake.

In that moment, his anger and frustration disappears.

After all, you can’t be angry at an empty boat.

The story offers a powerful lesson, which I call the Empty Boat Mindset:

In life, you’re going to experience countless collisions. With people. With environments. With chance circumstances outside your control.

Each of these collisions will threaten to derail you. To stoke the fire of anger, stress, and frustration. To knock you off your path.

The truth is that the negative emotions that grow inside you are rarely from the collision itself, but from your perception of the negative intent behind the collision.

If you convince yourself that every collision is a deliberate action by a bad actor, negative emotions will control your entire life.

In others words, your interpretation of the collision creates your own poison.

The Empty Boat Mindset is the reminder that most of these collisions you experience in life are with an empty boat.

There is no negative intent. There is no desire to harm. They are simply the random collisions of objects floating along on the lake of life.

Interestingly, when you embrace the Empty Boat Mindset, you reassume control over your own boat.

You’re no longer prone to the spiraling emotional effects of chance collisions. You are a seasoned explorer, ready to adapt to whatever the seas throw your way.

So, the next time you feel a collision and find your negative emotions growing, pause and ask yourself a simple question:

Am I just getting angry at an empty boat?

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”

― Henry Miller

[Essayful @Essayful]

Carl Jung on avoidance...

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

@coreysfrost @MediaComposer This is great! It’s a new one for me

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Courage is not the absence of fear.
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Courage is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Pretty Much

[Richard Kronenberg @richkronenberg]

@SWIM_likey @TheCinesthetic Hard disagree, mind expanding for me

[DryJanuaryUSA - Meharry Medical College @DryJanuary_USA]

Great insights @RichardCPiper 👍

[blue @bluewmist]

my therapist just told me, “if you’re always having to be the bigger person, maybe you shouldn’t be around so many little people.” wow.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Everything you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations you’ve been putting off.

I’ve never regretted having a hard conversation—only how long it took me to have it.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

One day you'll bury your dad, that's the day you'll realize you lost the only man who wants you to win genuinely.

Take care of him if he's alive.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A surefire way to make a bad situation worse is to continue replaying it in your mind.

The damage is done. The only thing that matters now is making the best choice given your current position.

Next play mentality.