Most of our conversations about “big work” stay at the surface.

We ask:
How do I finish my book?
How do I market it?
How do I choose my avatar?

Those are legitimate questions. But every so often, a project arrives that refuses to fit inside conventional frames. It won’t sit neatly on one bookshelf. I...

We live and lead in an age of permanent stimulation.

Messages, meetings, content, conversations, headlines, dashboards – the stream rarely stops. For most leaders, this has become such a normal backdrop that the real cost is almost invisible:

There is no space left.

No space for unprocessed emoti...

There is a difference between saying “everything is always right” and living as if that were true.

It is easy to agree with phrases like “you can’t fall off your path” when life is stable. It is harder when one year brings:

• The end of a long relationship
• A new city and social circle
• A job endi
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 There are two kinds of work you can do as a leader or entrepreneur.

1. The work that pays the bills.
2. The work that feels like it’s trying to be born through you.

Sometimes they overlap.
Often, for a while, they don’t.

You might:

• Deliver programmes inside organisations whose behaviour you no
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For a long time, many of us were taught to think of life as a system of rules and exchanges.

• If you do X, you get Y.
• If you are disciplined, you are rewarded.
• If you help someone, they owe you.

We were also taught to see ourselves as largely at the mercy of circumstances:

• The economy
• Pol
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