I’ve been thinking about Dynamic Teaming while working on our allotment. The aim is simple: learn how to grow food from a system that is becoming increasingly fragile. And it turns out the allotment has been teaching me rather more than how to grow vegetables. We started in the usual way. Plant the crops we … Continue reading 🌿 Wilderness Wisdom: What Fat Hen Taught Me About Dynamic Teams
I was the person who got the call when a famous football player's children were threatened with being kidnapped. I'd get the call when an airline company was being fined $millions because too many drugs were being smuggled out of Jamaica on their flights. Eventually, I got bored of looking after UHNW clients and organisations … Continue reading The first half of my life was spent mainly in the military-security world.
They need space. Space to walk. Space to think. Space to speak honestly — or not speak at all. That’s where Stoic Pilgrim Adventures CIC begins. Not with performance. Not with pressure. But with a simple return to what has always worked: Walking side by side. In nature. In conversation. In quiet. **Men Allowed Mondays** … Continue reading Most men don’t need fixing.
Big vision. Big growth. Big exits. Big applause. We celebrate BIG and BOLD like it’s the only way to be legitimate. Everyone’s quietly told they should be aiming to be the next billionaire disruptor. Here’s the bit we’re not allowed to say out loud: Most of us are not going to be “huge successes” in … Continue reading 📢 Everyone’s running an epic mental script. 🧠
There’s growing evidence that heavy tech use in schools and work is quietly eroding our ability to think deeply. https://www.instagram.com/p/DUnMft6EZ4L/ Humans didn’t evolve to learn alone, staring at screens. We learned by walking, arguing, questioning, and thinking together. Aristotle taught while walking. Socrates learned through conversation. If you don’t want to outsource your thinking — … Continue reading If you don’t want to outsource your thinking — and eventually your relevance — you need to train your mind the old way.
Are we? If so… maybe it’s how we make decisions. We turned humans into widgets and called it management.Trained ourselves to think in steps, stages, metrics and loops.Efficient. Useful. Incomplete. What’s breaking isn’t intelligence — it’s awareness. • Linear models applied to living systems• Speed optimised, wisdom lost• Control mistaken for understanding At the February … Continue reading “We’re all doomed.”
Every day we pass trees, flowers, and plants. Most of us don’t truly see them. We’ve been trained to treat green things as mechanisms, objects — resources to be managed or ignored. That way of looking is the same mechanistic story that’s pushed us toward crisis. From cradle to grave we learn to put “nature” … Continue reading Walk with the Living World
Not because they can’t write—but because we all need someone to listen, to reflect, to refine...... It’s the same with life. The philosopher Aristotle knew: no matter how sharp your mind, group intelligence outpaces the individual. Alone we circle in our own patterns. Together, we create something new. That’s why this men’s retreat :The Fellowship … Continue reading 🌀Don’t be a loner because…Every author needs an editor.
But revolutionary leadership starts with small acts of resistance. 💥 Watch where your money flows.💥 Starve the systems that harm.💥 Support life, not destruction. I just saw a video showing how a global drinks company is funding suffering in Gaza through its operations. Easy solution: stop buying the products that fuel harm. The quietest boycott … Continue reading 🔥 The system wants you compliant, corrupted, and quiet. 💥
We often confuse personality with character. Personality is mostly inherited — a mix of DNA and environment. It’s what the world notices first, but it’s not what holds up when the world is on fire. Character, on the other hand, is forged. It’s the choices we make, the virtues we cultivate, the way we respond … Continue reading Character Over Personality: Why the Future Needs Courageous Men
