Dave Evans

I've got the artist and my relationship with the piano.

And then I've got the, is my piano psyche and my romantic psyche able to co-resign?

What did you choose to do?

To my knowledge, she went to Juilliard and she told me she was going to break up with a boyfriend.

How that went, I don't know.

And whether or not she eventually got to the place where she believed that she could both be in relationship with a piano and a person, I didn't learn.

But I've always been incredibly respectful of Stina's story because the honesty she had with herself, I rarely find.

Yeah, we call it coherency.

It's one of the places you can experience meaning-making, and we describe coherence, a coherent person, as one for whom who I am, what I'm doing,

And what I believe in are lined up and interconnected.

So one of the first steps in becoming a coherent person is articulating what those things actually mean to you.

And we have an exercise of that called the compass exercise that helps people get a handle on that.

And living more coherently is pretty much a prerequisite to living meaningfully.

Because if I'm not coherent, if I'm not really acting like Dave, if you're really not acting like Shankar, then nothing's going to work.

Well, we have you write three short little pieces of work.

You know, we look at it real high, pretty high, and down to the ground.

We just have three levels of pretty much the same thing.

So the life view is

is a page, a page and a half, of your answer to the questions, what are your thoughts, what are your ideas about the most important things?

I mean, what is life for?