HeyJaredDan Doty
I write on spirituality, masculinity, wilderness, parenthood, love, and a hundred other things. Follow along for hopeful and unconventional takes on being a human in this wild world.
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What to Do When Nothing Is Working (opens the original)
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This morning I sat down to write and my computer was lagging. It took me longer than I wanted to realize that there was a software update that needed to happen. I ran the update, and voila, everything works again. Part of me wishes I could do the same for myself. It’s just so efficient. Click a button, reboot the system, and functioning returns and improves. It’s not at all unlike what so many of are trying to do when we go to therapy, hire a coach, do a workshop, go to yoga, or whatever you do
On punching above your weight class (opens the original)
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My first best leader (opens the original)
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Insight is cheap, Clarity is invaluable (opens the original)
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Learning Leadership from Wildfire (opens the original)
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Almost all of my best leadership lessons were learned in the wilderness, like actually.When I was 19 I got a summer gig with the National Forest Service as a naturalist. I led nature hikes, taught people to build fires and make primitive weapons–it was sweet. Halfway through the summer I got offered the opportunity to join a wildlife crew, as the fire season out west was rampaging and they needed more help. They rushed me through training and before I knew it I flew to California and was on a bu
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