Everything you ever wanted to know about Tony Robbins affiliated coaching but were too afraid to ask — Note: This article is also a YouTube video if you want to watch that. That stupid advert kept popping up on Facebook. “Be the best you” or “Super power your life” or whatever it said. It was one of those adverts where someone good looking smiles into the sunshine, dressed…

It’s simple, but it isn’t necessarily easy — Isn’t it mad that we are given all the tools in life to get exactly what we want, but instead of using them, we huff and puff and say it’s too hard or unfair? Imagine you had all the tools you needed to build a house. They were laid out…

That is… you refuse to click on it? — There are some very good writers on Medium. And then there are some very good writers of titles on Medium. Sometimes they are one and the same, there’s a Venn diagram for sure, but a significant handful of writers on here have learned to “game the system” by writing average…

Or: There’s a judge and a lawyer inside of you and what to do about it — OK, I will make good on my promise in the title and tell you in this very first paragraph the one tip I surmised from years of self-help. But… do read on afterwards, otherwise it won’t seem like great advice, it will just seem like a trite sentence. Context is…

Religion isn’t about logic, it’s about feeling — I’ve seen atheists argue with religious zealots about their beliefs, about their practices, about their faith. These atheists, full of certainty and arrogance, apply logic to biblical stories and Islamic legends, to the numerical oddities of reincarnation, they work hard to deconstruct the words of the Buddha, the Old Testament…

An essay on how it’s going and what you can learn too — Hello. Here I am. Just checking in. “Wait”, I can hear you cry, “…checking into what exactly? And who the fuck are you?” Fair point. Here’s a quick recap: I began performing stand-up comedy in 2018 and around that time I wrote an article on Medium about how Tony Robbins’…

Alan Watts, Douglas Adams and the Beauty of Questions — My 13-year-old stepson has grown curious about life. He recently told his mother he’d had a moment of existential reckoning when he suddenly realized he was an individual, a human, walking and talking in the wider world. I too remember having these moments. As a young teen, I would stare…

Why art can’t be quantified, but integrity can — There’s a scene in Dead Poet Society where Robin Williams, playing inspirational English school teacher John Keating, instructs his class to read the introductory essay ‘Understanding Poetry’ by J Evans Pritchard in the front of their textbooks. The essay is read aloud by a pupil where he explains poetry can…

Why haven’t we heard more about this? — God only knows the number of panicked meetings and emergency calls that are made when a service offered by a tech startup is brought into iPhone’s native iOS. Apple must kill off a handful of significant businesses every time it introduces a new feature: location-based reminders, landscape calendar views, screen…