Thinking & Living

Sometimes the Problem Is You

Personal responsibility begins when we stop treating our own behavior as the exception.

14 hrs ago • Brent Raeth

You Probably Do Not Need More Advice. You Need to Do Something.

Books, podcasts, and AI can help us improve. They can also give us increasingly respectable ways to avoid the work of changing.

Oct 15 • Brent Raeth

Suffering Is Selfishness

Pain is part of being human. Suffering becomes something different when our pain turns inward so completely that we stop seeing the people…

Oct 9 • Brent Raeth

My New Book Is Here: Think Outside the Box

Why Our Greatest Problems Persist and How Curiosity and Courage Can Fix Them.

Oct 6 • Brent Raeth

Your Feelings Are Real. That Doesn't Mean They're Right.

We have become very good at validating how people feel. We may have become less willing to question what those feelings are telling them.

Oct 2 • Brent Raeth

The Internet Gave Everyone a Voice. It Did Not Give Everyone Expertise.

We have more access to information than ever before, but access to information and understanding what it means are two very different things.

Sep 28 • Brent Raeth

Peace Cannot Depend on Everything Going Right

Learning to remain steady when life refuses to follow your plan.

Sep 18 • Brent Raeth

Do Not Let a Bad Hour Become a Bad Week

The discipline of recovery is not pretending that nothing went wrong. It is refusing to let one difficult moment take over everything that follows.

Sep 16 • Brent Raeth

Success Is Built Before the Workday Begins

Sleep, nutrition, and routine are not separate from performance. They determine how much of your ability is available when performance matters.

Sep 15 • Brent Raeth

Comfort Is Not Peace

When we build our lives around avoiding discomfort, we eventually become controlled by it.

Sep 11 • Brent Raeth

We See What We Focus On

The world is full of evidence. The question is what we have trained ourselves to notice.

Sep 3 • Brent Raeth

Choose Your Hard

Life rarely offers an easy path. It asks us to decide which difficulty is worth carrying.

Aug 12 • Brent Raeth

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