Great leaders have internalized the mindset reset. That's why we can perceive them as being the proverbial calm in the eye of the storm. This ability gives everyone around them an advantage.

Admitting we're wrong is humanizing. It softens us. By admitting fault there's space for connection. But being right can create complication.

Whether you're leading strategic change for a team or your own life, you can supercharge the effort by creating a system around six pillars.

When we open up our minds, hearts, and turn our own story over to the world, we create space for others to do the same. Openness magnetizes; inviting connection, softening fear, and building trust.

Leadership isn’t about the pop-culture traits: charisma, certainty, or control. It’s about what you do when no one’s watching and how you listen when anyone is speaking.

The Middle Way is not bland compromise. It's more strategic than that; it’s the discipline of pragmatic optimism. It means holding a vision for a better future while staying grounded in current realities.

The antidote to frailty isn’t in a gym or a book. It’s in cultivating robustness; across mindset, metabolism, movement, relationships, and purpose. Robustness is the baseline, but we can aim higher yet: toward anti-fragility.

Everywhere we look, our culture provides surface-level symbology pressed onto reality. We can assume this is to soothe us, reassure us and distract us. But above all it's to sell us. If not an actual product, then a reality of their creation.