Just as quick as everything started falling apart, it will all start falling into place.

nothing going right / everything crashing down around you is the birth of some thing not the death. it's a forest fire before new growth on fertile soil. laugh your way through and get excited for what's on the other side. it's going to be better than you can imagine.

Maturing is realising you don’t even care about winning in the long term, or hoping someone “finds out” you were right, it’s literally just creating distance and preserving your peace. That’s it.

Biggest utility in accumulating losses is simply that enough of them bake into you that you can't be beaten. Fear simply diminishes - losing your job, bad grade, not making your rent - you know that regardless of what happens, if you're still breathing, you're fine. Uncrushable

Find the blind spot of personal suffering so fascinating. Suffering that’s personal to you biases you into thinking that for you it’s worse, your suffering is just different to others’, it’s more painful. Then you speak to someone about the things that have happened in their

The necessity of new experiences for growth lies in the fact that we’re likely constantly placeboing ourselves into thinking we know what we’re good at/what we like. Especially past childhood where schools/clubs constantly throw you into new situations. “I’m a morning person”,

Sat down to write essay, couldn’t focus for over an hour. Constant distraction. Berated self for being so unfocused. Went to the gym, hit chest and back, instantly more focused. Realised I haven’t lifted for about a week. Always comes back to the same thing. You’re storing

Ironically, paradoxically, the ability to share all your news with your friends in real time on your phone, is what diminishes the quality of time spent with your friends in person - there’s nothing to catch up about. Making it more likely you all sit and scroll your phones.

Morning black coffee hits so different in the warm sun abroad.

You should operationalise success by having images for your future self in different contexts. For relationships, your goal should be to set the standard for the kind of person your partner wants, even if it doesn’t work out. Incompatibility is not mutually exclusive from being

What I’ve come to learn as a man approaching 30 - it’s an immature mindset to ruminate on and fantasise about the moment you can relax (school biases you to think like this). Work never ends, and it’s not meant to. Your role is to work, output is your job. And when you enter

You can’t chase multiple things simultaneously in this world: every new desire is traded off against an existing desire. In a world so saturated the only way to get ahead is to be all in on something. Doesn’t mean you can never change, but you need to work in series; not in

Quick hack for stress: pause, take a step back, visualise all the colossal things you want to do with your life. The task that’s stressing you out instantly feels like nothing in comparison.

The reason anxiety is such a relentless demon is because oftentimes, it’s an indication that something in your life is unaddressed. A difficult conversation with your boss, or your SO, a deadline, admin, other BS that life throws at you. The more stuff you pile up mentally, the

The benefit of training isn’t in looking good, that’s a byproduct. It’s that it gives you access to a richer life - one where you can climb mountains, swim in streams, carry your kids, do DIY, go on adventures and much more. In 2025 make fitness your lifestyle rather than a

You need to start viewing social media the same as your nutrition - it’s a mental diet. Every single time you open a SM app, you are feeding your brain. Are you feeding it cheap, fast food or high quality nutrients? Might be time to switch diets.

Working theory on this (informed from personal experience) is that the doom scrolling epidemic is being driven by an insufficient sleep epidemic. Massive reward to effort ratio and so appealing to the tired brain as a passive activity, which of course drives even worse sleep

Sundays are for building fitness apps 💪

Flying back to Edinburgh after moving to Spain - realisation around how words shape your world. Telling people I’m “going back home” for a visit having left - keep this up & you’ll never fully “integrate” in your new city. Designate “home” accordingly and it will become so.