Some of the people (and animals) who have educated me and influenced the creation of my book, It’s Not About the Grades: Landscapes for Learning Beyond Schooling, as well as this blog and Landscapes for Learning mission / project, in no particular order:
My students over the past 14 years
My four kids
My dog, Finn
My cat, Milo
Alan Watts, lectures, The Way of Zen, The Wisdom of Insecurity, In my Own way: an autobiography
B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, inner peace and ultimate freedom
Duncan Trussell Family podcast
Sam Harris, Waking Up with Sam Harris Podcast
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
Stephen Pressfield, The War of Art
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Full Catastrophe Living, Coming to Our Senses:Healing Ourselves and Our World through Mindfulness
Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovery Mercy
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff “The Coddling of the American Mind” (Atlantic Monthly) and book of same title.
Dr. Peter Gray & Self-Directed Education
Naval Ravikant (podcasts, videos)
Thomas Berry (interviews)
Ken Robinson, Ph.D. The Element: How Finding your passion changes everything, videos about education system
Pema Chodron, Meditation: How to Meditate: A practical Guide, The Places that Scare you,
Jack Kornfield, interview with Tim Ferriss; audio meditations and talks, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings
Carl Jung: Modern Man in Search of Soul and other writings
Mary Oliver: Upstream, and other poems
Ally Hamilton, Yoga’s Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Bill Plotkin Nature and The Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Steven Pinker, videos and interviews with Sam Harris, Joe Rogan; A Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st century, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
David Hawkins, Letting Go The Path to Surrender
Rumi: The Book of Love (Coleman Barks); the essential Rumi
Rilks’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Anita Barrows)
Various writings in ecopsychology
Ruchard Louv, Nature Deficit Disorder
Writings of the Transcendentalists (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, other writings)
On the Ragged Edge of Silence John Francis
John Muir, writings
Daniel Goleman, A force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World
Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
Thich Naht Hahn, Silence. The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise, list other books
Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice: A rebellious novel
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Wayne Dyer, Change your thoughts, change you life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
Zachary Slayback: The End of School: Reclaiming Education
Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, blog articles and posts
Various guests on Don’t Keep Your Day Job poscast with Cathy Heller
Seth Godin, video interviews
Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club:A Memoir, Lit, The Art of Memoir
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Parker Palmer: The Courage to Teach, online videos
Kevin Griffin, Recovering Joy: A mindful life after addiction, One Breath at a time: Buddhism and the 12 steps
Tommy Rosen (online Recovery 2.0 Conferences)
The Mindfulness Summit Online Conference (the mindfulnesssummit.com)
Gabor Mate (videos, and podcast with Tim Ferriss)
Chade-Meng Tan and Dan Goleman, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to
Tim Ferriss, Tribe of Mentors, blog, The Tim Ferriss Show (podcast)
Behave, Robert Sapolsky and other online appearances and speeches; lectures on Youtube
Tony Robbins, I am Not Your Guru netflix special
Dr. Susan Davis, her Ted Talk, appearance on Rich Roll Podcast, Emotional Agility
George Carlin (standup acts online, youtube)
The Rich Roll podcast
Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, becoming one of the world’s most fittest men and discovering myself
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Lectures, Interviews, Maps of Meaning, podcasts
The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast); personal conversation with Joe Rogan; Netflix comedy special
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying (interviews with Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan)
Bikram and Rajashree Choudhury, Emmy Cleaves (Bikram Yoga)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Leo Babauta (Zenhabits.org)
Yuval Harari, Homo Sapiens, Homo Deus, and many interviews (see my youtube channel)
Wayne Dyer, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Mind
Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education
Paramahansa Yogananda, Journey to Self-Realization
James Pennebaker & Joshua Smyth, Opening Up by Writing it Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain
and many, many more…
