While awareness can lead to guardedness if we direct it outside ourselves, it can also lead to connection if we turn it inward. Oftentimes, we discover the security we seek isn't something that can be found in the world.

Real leadership demands holding a mirror to complacency and inviting people into the friction that leads to fire. This creative tension is where new strength, strategy, vision and resolve emerge.

Originality, perhaps, is not raw, brazen inventing from scratch. It’s more like a remix of reality into something nature didn’t quite try: a twist of absurdity, purpose, or rebellion.

There’s a lot of talk about waking up these days. A mass awakening leading to a collective leap in consciousness. The world is shaking, and it seems to be shaking people awake.

Far as we know, humans are the only critter aware of — and able to limit, explore, or expand — its capacity. This awareness is the key to our superpower: adaptation.

Start asking: What if I tried this differently? What if I dropped this identity? What if I just said yes for a week? You get to be both subject and scientist. Explorer and experiment.

We live in a wild time that promises to get even wilder. We're confusing what's on a screen for what's outside our window. It's called cognitive distortion, and it's happening...

Disconnection from nature leaves us unrooted. And hoists upon us the responsibility to re-pattern, bolstering our humanity and rejuvenating our leadership instincts.