Leave Aristotle Alone
Modern happiness culture quotes Aristotle constantly, and has him backwards. From Laurie Santos to the wider self-development industry, eudaimonia gets treated as a feeling you can measure, raise, and optimize. Aristotle meant the opposite: not a mood you rate from the inside, but the activity of a whole life lived well, formed through virtue, realized among others, and exposed to a fortune no...
Numbers and Lies
You've seen it everywhere: 95% of behavior is subconscious. The adjective is wrong and the number traces to a 1998 academic hypothetical, a 1999 paper that inverted it, and a 2003 marketing book that extrapolated without measurement.
None of it survives inspection. And why this is an industry-wide issue.
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The Horse Does not Care about Your Story
Equine coaching is one of the fastest-growing modalities in leadership development. It is also one of the most intellectually compromised.
In this essay, I trace how mystical frameworks — mirrors, energy, vibrations — came to dominate the field, and make the case for a horsemanship and neuroscience-grounded approach that takes both the horse and the client seriously. The horse is not a mirro...
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