American poet, writer and photographer
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Tyler Knott Gregson discusses empathy and how it's not having the memory of that shared pain, it's the imagination when you don't.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses The Neverending Story, and how it lands different as an adult, and shows how the true villain in this world is the emptiness of a life without imagination.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Inner Nature, and how it's so much better to honor yours, to be alive in the mud, than aiming at some palace, all wrapped in silk, but dead on the inside.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how the Golden Rule meant well, but fell short, because it assumes sameness. Dive in.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how negativity is hard-wired to perform better and spread further than positivity and dares to ask: What if we're NOT all bad?
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Time, and how it's the only thing we cannot get more of. How we should treasure our aging, our bodies, our short time with those we love.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks about how if you hear hoofbeats, you should think horses, not zebras. How we humans always imagine the worst, when it so rarely is.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how we can all stop subsidizing the behaviors we no longer want to endure, how we can stop watering our weeds.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Pride, and how it's rapidly become a status symbol. How the rich don't close their curtains, an article from The Atlantic.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Muses, and how they not only shape our art, they shape our entire soul.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the myth of Perfection, and how quantity, while demonized, can actually create the best quality.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Vanilla Sky, and how a single line helped re-arrange his entire life.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses travel, and how 16 years of constant motion has taught him so much about how he wishes to travel going forward. Slower is better.
In Defense of Shame. Tyler Knott Gregson discusses shame, both healthy and unhealthy, and how he thinks healthy shame is disappearing with negative consequences.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses grief, and sorrow, and the importance of your presence, not your perfection, when someone is hurting.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the entitlement of assuming that happiness is owed to us all, and not something to be built on our own.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses verdigris, and about the stunning beauty in creating art with colors, with tools, that are never meant to last.
Tyler Knott Gregson interviews The Word Witch, Kate Belew, for an amazing conversation about life, poetry, magic, witchcraft, intention, and more.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks about Lemony Snicket and the wisdom in not waiting to be ready to live your life, but living it now, anyway.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses smartphones, social media, and the true curse that they have uncovered: Entitlement.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks about mental health, and the film Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Tyler Knott Gregson kicks off the new year speaking about loss, grief, and how to be prepared to go forward anyway, no matter what comes.
As we tip into New Years Eve and a new year beginning, Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the weight of all we will, and should, leave unfinished. We must let go to move forward.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Winter Solstice, and how we can use this to find grace in what we are, what we were, what we wish to be, in all that fading light.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks of the quiet abuse that comes from conditional love, and how dangerous it is to be loved, or to love, this way.
Tyler Knott Gregson proclaims that The Goonies might be the most perfect film ever made. And backs it up. Goonies NEVER SAY DIE!
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses his Autism, and how he has 400 people living within him, all are him, all are not, and the beautiful noise this makes.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how others always wish our grieving to end, how they wish us to let it go, how they wish us to find gratitude for what remains, when we've lost what we lost.
Tyler Knott Gregson dives into loss, and how the biggest lesson he learned from the loss of his friend was simple: Be NOT Forgettable. Be you, be memorable, be unique.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses a life well lived, and all the things we trade for money. Most, we probably shouldn't.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses his weird Autistic language, Knottish, that he has created for himself, and those he loves.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Autistic life advice, and how sometimes you learn lessons in bizarre places: This time, from YouTubers.
Tyler Knott Gregson jumps into part 2 of the interview with his wife, about what it feels like, and truly IS, to love someone on the Autism Spectrum.
Tyler Knott Gregson interviews his wife, Sarah Linden Gregson, about what it's like to TRULY love someone on the Autism Spectrum. Part 1 of 2.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses our shrinking social circles as we age, and how that is entirely ok. We are built to have our social circles shrink and tighten, whilst the depth increases. This is ok.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks about the sacred art of silliness, and how we take ourselves far too seriously, far too often.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how all great religions could, and SHOULD, be reduced down to only their 3 simplest beliefs.
Tyler Knott Gregson talks about love, and how it doesn't always begin like they show in movies, that it doesn't always start with grand romantic things, sometimes it begins in whispers, in tiny moments.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the consequences of 15 years of nearly constant travel, and how all things begin to blend and feel unreal.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses something he's been wanting to for a long time: How everyone takes everything personally. Offers the best life advice from an autistic person ever.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses death, grief, and how he believes and looks at things a bit differently than some.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the Buddhist idea that we are born without borders, not differentiating between us and the universe, but somehow we lose this. Maybe this is the cause of isolation.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how our internet culture has become one of cynicism and critique, instead of allowing people to like what they like and love what they love.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how if all we ever do is give, we always run out, and what if there as an algorithm that helped determine how much to give?
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how of all the art forms, writing might be the closest to turning nothing into something. More on the therapy that's always been writing for him.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the Buddhist belief in Field of Merit, the karmic bank all your good deeds are stored in, and why kindness matters.
Tyler Knott Gregson, on his 44th birthday, discusses the 44 lessons he's learned in his life. Wisdom in small packages.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses, in Part 3 of his exploration on "Lasts" all those we forget to remember.
In Part 2 of his exploration on "Lasts," Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the goodbyes we didn't know were coming, but we still remember anyway.
Tyler Knott Gregson discusses "Lasts" and how he believes there are 3 kinds we all have to endure in life. This is the first, those we know are coming, and how hard it makes it to say goodbye.