The first half of my life was spent mainly in the military-security world.

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.

Most men donโ€™t need fixing.

They need space. Space to walk. Space to think. Space to speak honestly โ€” or not speak at all. Thatโ€™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 donโ€™t need fixing.

๐Ÿ“ข Everyoneโ€™s running an epic mental script. ๐Ÿง 

Big vision. Big growth. Big exits. Big applause. We celebrate BIG and BOLD like itโ€™s the only way to be legitimate. Everyoneโ€™s quietly told they should be aiming to be the next billionaire disruptor. Hereโ€™s the bit weโ€™re not allowed to say out loud: Most of us are not going to be โ€œhuge successesโ€ in … Continue reading ๐Ÿ“ข Everyoneโ€™s running an epic mental script. ๐Ÿง 

If you donโ€™t want to outsource your thinking โ€” and eventually your relevance โ€” you need to train your mind the old way.

Thereโ€™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 didnโ€™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 donโ€™t want to outsource your thinking โ€” … Continue reading If you donโ€™t want to outsource your thinking โ€” and eventually your relevance โ€” you need to train your mind the old way.

โ€œWeโ€™re all doomed.โ€

Are we? If soโ€ฆ maybe itโ€™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. Whatโ€™s breaking isnโ€™t intelligence โ€” itโ€™s awareness. โ€ข Linear models applied to living systemsโ€ข Speed optimised, wisdom lostโ€ข Control mistaken for understanding At the February … Continue reading โ€œWeโ€™re all doomed.โ€

Walk with the Living World

Every day we pass trees, flowers, and plants. Most of us donโ€™t truly see them. Weโ€™ve been trained to treat green things as mechanisms, objects โ€” resources to be managed or ignored. That way of looking is the same mechanistic story thatโ€™s pushed us toward crisis. From cradle to grave we learn to put โ€œnatureโ€ … Continue reading Walk with the Living World

๐ŸŒ€Don’t be a loner because…Every author needs an editor.

Not because they canโ€™t writeโ€”but because we all need someone to listen, to reflect, to refine...... Itโ€™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. Thatโ€™s why this menโ€™s retreat :The Fellowship … Continue reading ๐ŸŒ€Don’t be a loner because…Every author needs an editor.

๐Ÿ”ฅ The system wants you compliant, corrupted, and quiet. ๐Ÿ’ฅ

But revolutionary leadership starts with small acts of resistance. ๐Ÿ’ฅ Watch where your money flows.๐Ÿ’ฅ Starve the systems that harm.๐Ÿ’ฅ 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 ๐Ÿ”ฅ The system wants you compliant, corrupted, and quiet. ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Character Over Personality: Why the Future Needs Courageous Men

We often confuse personality with character. Personality is mostly inherited โ€” a mix of DNA and environment. Itโ€™s what the world notices first, but itโ€™s not what holds up when the world is on fire. Character, on the other hand, is forged. Itโ€™s the choices we make, the virtues we cultivate, the way we respond … Continue reading Character Over Personality: Why the Future Needs Courageous Men

What’s more important AI or HI?

Is #AI going to make life calmer and more rewarding...or will it speed up to crazy levels? Discuss!