On Knowing When You're Needed

An exploration of grind culture + the call for softness

I recently listened to a two hour long talk by author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love) that a friend of mine sent me. Elizabeth is a brilliant speaker, by the way - wonderful writer, but her themes in this talk were more than inspirational - they were life changing.

The overarching theme of her discussion was about how most of us in this culture - but e…