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  • LATEST ARTICLE

    The Return of the Seeker

    This is the final part of a short series introducing three archetypes that underpin our work as entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals—The Artist, the Merchant and the Seeker. (They are also the subject of my book, coming out in June.) In part one I talked about the Artist, and how so many of us have our…

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    The Return of the Seeker

  • Journey to Face the Shadow

    When I was seven, I stole the cloak from Damien Kelly’s batman figure. I was jealous. My batman didn’t have a cloak. It was second hand and by the time the previous owner had passed it off, the cloak had disappeared. I remember him crying with the teacher, snot pouring down his face. I stole…

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  • For When You’ve Lost Purpose

    “Follow your passion, and you’ll discover your purpose.” They say. Once you discover it, you can live the dream! I first read about the idea of “life purpose” in David Deida’s Way of the Superior Man. An incredible book that showed me, rather uncompromisingly, just how un-superior I actually was at the age of 24.…

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  • Pain is a Doorway to Yourself

    My father just left on a train. He’s been visiting me, and now he’s going back to where he lives in England. And all of a sudden, it reminds me of the time when I was a child. When he left, moved away, and never came back. It still hurts, all these years later. I…

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  • Reconciling the Artist and the Merchant

    There’s an idea I’ve been fascinated for years now. It’s one of those things that has endured through different businesses and phases of my life. It is the idea that there is a new kind of professional role being formed in society at large – a kind of entrepreneur who is soul driven in some…

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  • What Are You Waiting For?

    You want to make it don’t you? That thing that’s been nagging at you for weeks or years. It feels big. It’s tugging at your sleeve. It won’t leave you alone, although you do your very best to ignore it. “Create me!” It says, so innocently. As if it were the simplest thing in the…

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  • Where You Find Yourself

    I don’t want to feel it. Whatever the fuck it is, I don’t want to get close to it – that feeling lurking inside. Because I know it changes everything. The feeling is me. The feeling is my actual experience of the universe, in this moment, as I let the tingles creep over the outsides…

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  • The Names We Give Things Do Matter

    We do something no other animal does. We speak and think in words. It is this ability that gives us such incredible power, for we can imagine something in words, that doesn’t exist in reality. Words are the magic through which we create the world. They are also the magic through which we obscure it.…

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  • Don’t Do Anything You Don’t Want To

    Because the moment that you agree to something, when in truth you don’t want it, you betray something. You betray yourself. “Yes sweetie, I’ll come to that party.” Except I don’t want to go. I would be absolutely clear about this fact if I actually looked inside and felt myself. I don’t do this. Because…

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  • The Woman on the Other Side of the Boundary

    She came too close. She presumed too much. She took what she needed. I’ve spent my life trying to keep her happy, making sure I’m giving her what she needs. There’s something in my base-code, an algorithm that says her emotional well-being is my responsibility. So when she’s unhappy, my code tells me it’s my…

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  • The Social Event of the Century

    I’m at a party. It’s the biggest party I’ve ever seen, and friends from all over the world are here. More and more are pouring in through the doors. The room is vast, and it seems to grow with each new guest who comes in. I look around. I’m not quite sure what the rules…

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  • The Two Lives

    The first is the one between birth and death. This life. The one you’re living right now. The unfolding of what was, through what is, into what could be. The second is the other life. That between death and rebirth. It’s the elusive life, because in the midst of its living, there is no concept…

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  • The Saga of the Sensitive Man

    I’m a sensitive man. By that I don’t mean one who is touchy, emotionally volatile, or easily hurt (though I have all these characteristics), I mean in the literal sense of one who has a high capacity for sensing. I’m pretty sure I was born sensitive. Though I was also born the son of a…

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