Do you know the three most powerful words in the English language? If you’re not sure, you can simply answer the question with them: “I don’t know.” Some of you told yourselves, “Of course I know what they are,” and tried to guess where I might be going with this. Why do we so often feel it necessary to know the answers to every question? And if you did know, then how fun is that? I ask, you answer, and we move on…yawn. On the other hand, when you utter those three simple words, “I don’t know,” you open the possibility of learning something new. We can’t know everything. We in […]

If I were to ask you what the scariest day of your life was, could you tell me? Take a moment to think about that. If you were to ask me this same question, the answer might surprise you—because it happened on a day I thought would have been filled with pure joy. It was a cold crisp December morning when I sailed out beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and turned south to embark on the journey of a lifetime. I had been planning my departure for years—I was going to sail around the world—something I had been dreaming of since I first stepped foot into a sailboat at age 13. […]