Are You a Tyrannical or Invitational Leader?
The difference defines more than mere leadership style – it defines your soul and how you’re letting it engage with the world. The Opposite of Tyranny It’s easy to categorise the presence of tyrants and tyranny, but harder to conceptualise its opposite; hence starting here. I realised: It’s definitely not “freedom” – whatever that actually […]
Progressiveness: the opposite of progress
In 2018, I first heard Johann Hari say that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but connection. As much as that specific line itself was formative for me to the point of illumination, this line also introduced me to the concept of two sides to a coin. Said more accurately, as coins themselves were […]
Contemplations on (im)patience
“It is patience that has always been the true gauge and measure of the greatness of a person’s soul.”– Richard Rudd The opposite of impatience is not patience. Patience implies waiting. Waiting for something that you want. Something that your (ir)rational mind prefers to your present moment, which is your life: the perpetual now. Your […]
I realise now that
I realise now that I never knew what being unfocused or not being able to focus looked like. But I know I consciously attempted constantly to not look like that which I didn’t know how it looked. So then how I acted and looked was defiant. Children are pure. I didn’t want to be defiant […]
Stand still
Please enjoy this published record of the expression of David Whyte on A Thinking Allowed DVD with Jeffrey Mishlove where they discuss the poem Lost by David Wagoner. The original footage can be watched first, if you like, before reading my written record of it. Jeffrey Mishlove, the interviewer, begins by stating that there are so many aspects of society that […]
The third Chinese patriarch of Zen
The Great Way (Tao) is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When not attached to love or hate, all is clear and undisguised. Separate by the smallest amount, however, and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth. If you wish to know the truth, then hold to no opinions […]
Reflections on burnout as a neurodivergent entrepreneur
In 2022, I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism. In 2023, I reflected on my experiences of burnout, which I understand is an important topic within neurodiversity. Neurodiverse burnout is a state of physical and mental fatigue, heightened stress, and diminished capacity to manage life skills, sensory input, and/or social interactions, which comes from years […]
Action is the cake that goes rotten without its cherry on top
This short essay is an exploration of beliefs and actions: what they are, how they are metaphysically connected and how you cannot eat the cherry without the cake but when the cake is left without its cherry it becomes rotten. The exploration was one I felt compelled to embark on. My motor-pulling brain’s cable car […]
Phil Stutz and his ten tools
On the 14th of November, 2022, a documentary directed by Jonah Hill was published by Netflix on the life and psychiatric methods of the world-leading therapist, Phil Stutz. This was not a typical Jonah Hill movie where he crawls on all fours for a significant amount of time, drooling and mumbling with rounded spectacles and […]
Ostinato rigore
The similarities of philosophy between Andrew Tate’s dad and Leonardo Da Vinci You’re going to have to bare with me on this one… I’m unsure, at this moment of grasping this random idea and beginning to write it out if the fact that I am the first to make this connection is a good thing […]