The cost of almost

We live in the almost. Almost done. Almost launched. Almost ready. The accumulation of almost is the quiet tragedy of ambitious people. Neuroscience has a name for what happens when we split our attention across competing priorities. It is called cognitive switching...

The comeback nobody sees

We forget that sports compresses time. A season of effort, heartbreak, and recovery fits inside a single highlight reel. The data is clean. The performance is visible. The verdict is swift. And so we think we understand what happened. We see the athlete who failed and...

Are you having fun yet?

Life is finite. You already knew that. What you might be avoiding is the second part: misaligned, unappreciated, and stagnant is a choice. Not always a conscious one. But a choice. The research is unambiguous. Gallup’s decades of workforce data show that engaged...

The plate is already full

I have sat in enough leadership rooms to know the default move. Someone misses a deadline. A project stalls. The energy in the team feels off. And almost without thinking, the conversation turns to the individual. Their skills. Their commitment. Their fit. I have...

Give it the right name

Have you ever noticed that jazz radio DJs all seem to have these low, unhurried, silky voices? And yet flip over to a news channel and everyone sounds breathless and self-important. Nobody trained them to sound that way. The role called to them. They were already that...