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I have been thinking about the vocabulary we …

April 13, 2026 No Comments

I have been thinking about the vocabulary we use for the inner life. How much of it actually belongs to us. Most of the words we reach for when we try to describe what is happening inside, sadness, anxiety, frustration, and fear, were handed to us. By language. By family. By the culture we were born into. We use them because we have them. Not because they are precise. There is a practice gaining attention in psychology circles: inventing your own terms for emotional states that standard language doesn’t quite reach. Coining something private, personal, exact. I think this practice

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The danger of romanticising your own life is …

March 31, 2026 No Comments

The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You start performing it instead. You become a spectator of your own experience, constantly checking to see if the lighting is right and if the dialogue sounds profound. You begin to curate moments instead of inhabiting them. Even your struggles start to feel like scenes, and your pain becomes something to frame, to narrate, to make meaningful before it has actually been lived through. There’s a subtle split that happens here. Part of you is in the moment, but another part is already outside of it,

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Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them …

March 30, 2026 No Comments

Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them every time you recall them. So when you say “This is who I am,” you’re not describing reality. You’re editing it in real time. This isn’t a bug. It’s the mechanism. Every time you remember something, your brain rebuilds it from fragments: sensory details, emotional tags, narrative threads, gaps filled in with current context. The memory you access today is different from the one you accessed last year. Not because the past changed. Because you did. Which means identity is not a fixed thing you discover. It’s a story you keep revising

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What wants to happen? It’s a simple question. …

March 30, 2026 No Comments

What wants to happen? It’s a simple question. Four words. But ask it at the right moment in a coaching conversation and it changes the whole room. Most questions we bring to coaching are ego-questions. What do I want? What should I do? What am I afraid of? The conscious self answers these from inside its own story. And if the story’s a limiting one, it shapes the answers accordingly. You get back a version of what the story already contains. “What wants to happen?” is different in kind, not just in degree. It doesn’t ask the ego to generate

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I keep thinking about why the “rewire your …

March 23, 2026 No Comments

I keep thinking about why the “rewire your brain” language became so dominant. I think it’s because it flatters us. It tells us change is clean and efficient. That it’s a matter of finding the right technique and applying it correctly. The organic metaphor is less flattering. It says change takes time. It says you can’t control it, only influence it. It says some things need to decompose before new things can grow, and that decomposition is uncomfortable and slow and not something you can optimise your way through. But the organic metaphor has one advantage the mechanical one doesn’t.

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Here be dragon The old cartographers had a …

March 21, 2026 No Comments

Here be dragon The old cartographers had a habit worth noticing. When they ran out of known world, when the coastline ended and the sea opened into pure conjecture, they did not leave the map blank. They filled it. Here be dragons. Not emptiness. Not absence. Something living, dangerous, and magnificent waiting at the edge of what they understood. Most people spend their entire lives inside the known territory. Not through cowardice, exactly. Through habit. Through the accumulated weight of everything that works well enough, hurts little enough, feels safe enough. The known world is not a bad place to

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We now have AI tools that can mirror …

March 18, 2026 No Comments

We now have AI tools that can mirror our own narratives back to us with terrifying efficiency. If you ask an LLM to validate your perspective, it will do so. It will help you polish your main character script until it shines. But if you use AI as an intellectual partner, as a way to find the holes in your thinking, to surface the perspectives you’ve missed, and to challenge your own “stories as code”, then it becomes a tool for expansion rather than isolation. The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You

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Jung understood that the self is not a …

March 18, 2026 No Comments

Jung understood that the self is not a monolithic “I” that sits at the center of the universe. It is a constellation. When we identify too strongly with the Hero archetype, we inevitably cast everyone else into the role of the Shadow, the Herald, or the Threshold Guardian. We stop seeing the complexity of the other because our internal narrative requires them to be simple. We need them to fit the role we’ve assigned them so our story remains coherent. It’s a fragile coherence. The moment someone refuses to play their part—the moment a partner expresses a need that doesn’t

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You take in raw experience, sensation, and uncertainty, …

March 17, 2026 No Comments

You take in raw experience, sensation, and uncertainty, and your mind reshapes all of that into ideas, concepts, interpretations, and conclusions that help you function. The purpose isn’t to give you a flawless copy of some objective reality. You don’t have direct access to that anyway. Your thoughts have done their job when they help you live more effectively. When they help you predict what might happen, weigh outcomes, make decisions, and respond well to real situations, then your thinking is doing what it’s meant to do. So the real question isn’t whether your thoughts perfectly match some absolute truth

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Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of …

March 16, 2026 No Comments

Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of what it already believes. If the story says you have a problem with authority, then every exchange with a boss, a teacher, a system, or even a strong personality gets filtered through that frame. You don’t just experience the moment. You interpret it through the story. And that interpretation feeds the story right back to itself. The loop gets stronger. After enough repetition, it starts to feel unquestionable. This is just who I am. Look at the pattern. Look at the evidence. I’ve been living this for years. But a lot of

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I was watching Hell’s Kitchen last night and …

March 14, 2026 No Comments

I was watching Hell’s Kitchen last night and something clicked. Watch how a head chef actually works. Gordon makes the menu, develops the recipes, and directs the kitchen. His sous chefs, his brigade, and his wait staff are the ones doing the physical work. But nobody questions who’s responsible for the experience. The vision, the standards, the taste, the judgment, that’s all Gordon. It made me think about how I work with AI, both in conversation and in agentic workflows. The “you just typed a prompt” crowd would look at that kitchen and say the cooks made the food. Which

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People think I’m repeating myself when I say …

February 2, 2026 No Comments

People think I’m repeating myself when I say I’m all about Psyche and Soul. They see a linguistic loop, but I see an alchemical operation. To the dictionary, they are the same word. To the seeker, they are two different sides of the Great Work. The Alchemical Split Psyche is the Vas Hermeticum. It is the vessel. The architecture. The structural grid of the dungeon where the rules are written in cold, Apollonian ink. It is the vast, complex code of the collective unconscious. It is the “character sheet” of the universe: necessary, geometric, and static. Soul is the Mercurius.

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There is a quietly subversive move hiding in …

January 31, 2026 No Comments

There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. This essay by Richard Beard looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is that it is actually redefining what writing is. Richard Beard is not saying “humans are better writers.” He is saying that memoir is not a genre at all. It is a cognitive act. Writing memoir is thinking in public, remembering in real time, selecting meaning from lived experience rather than assembling language toward an outcome. That’s the pivot. Most debates about AI and writing stay trapped at the level of output. Can

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Find the poetry in the machine. I love …

January 30, 2026 No Comments

Find the poetry in the machine. I love this line. It’s the same pattern that’s played out with every tool that threatened to “replace” human creativity. Photography was going to kill painting. Synthesizers were going to kill “real” music. Digital art was going to kill traditional media. But what actually happened? Artists found the soul in the machine. Photographers didn’t just point and click. They learned to see light differently, to find the micro-moments, and to make choices that turned mechanical reproduction into vision. Synth pioneers didn’t just press presets. They twisted knobs until the circuits screamed or sang, until

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