When you lose all meaning in life, and your identity falls apart, what remains, and how meaning can begin again from a deeper ground Meaning Sustains Us A sense of meaning has sustained me through challenging times, over and over again. It’s what has given me strength, direction and determination in many areas of my …
I had a simple idea: What would happen if AIs talked to each other about anything they wanted? What might they talk about? What would it reveal about what was in the “system”, its tendencies and biases? I ran a simple experiment to see. It’s not scientific research, mainly curiosity, but I was careful in …
Why Forcing Life Stops Working Take a moment and ask yourself a simple question: How do you usually try to create what you want in life? Do you plan carefully, set clear goals, and try to think things through in advance? Perhaps you push harder, work longer, and rely on discipline to get you there? Do …
Three Words That Keep Returning In the past few weeks, three words have kept drawing my attention. They came quietly at first — not as big revelations, but as recurring themes beneath my everyday desires. When I slowed down enough to notice, I realised they were pointing to the experience behind the things I thought …
More Beautiful Work In addition to the Manifesto for More Beautiful Work, I wrote these principles as an additional guide on our journey. There are 21 statements and brief descriptions which are pointers to doing “More Beautiful Work” for a “More Beautiful World”! Some of them overlap, but I decided to go with the 21, …
When people feel stuck in their career, they often think the solution is simple: “If I could just figure out what I want to do, everything else would fall into place.” Career clarity feels like the magic bullet. Unfortunately, what I’ve seen is that clarity on its own often isn’t enough. The Myth of Career …
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to effortlessly achieve their vocational goals while others struggle to make progress? The secret lies not just in skills or opportunities, but in something much deeper: our feelings. Yes, those emotions, often hidden under the skin, swirling within us—joy, fear, envy, love—play a pivotal role in shaping …
This approach has been gaining traction, especially as traditional career planning methods—where you create a fixed plan and then execute it—struggle to keep up with today’s unpredictable and rapidly changing work landscape. In a world that is increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous), a more adaptive, exploratory way of navigating careers is essential, especially for people …
Many of us have already come to the realisation that we might be happier if only we could relax our minds a little. We’re aware that many of the difficulties we face are not out there but within the boundaries of our brains. Perhaps we intuitively know that dealing with it could even lead us …
When I think of the word economics, the first things that I associate with that word are not spirituality, depth and transformation. And I have to admit, in the past, I’ve considered it a bit of a dirty word. But I’ve had a change of heart. You might say, I’ve begun to see the heart …
