Companies keep pouring money into leadership courses while their most senior roles outgrow traditional training. The real gap is not skills but mental complexity. This article shows how to redesign work so leaders evolve their thinking, not just their toolkit and habits for change that endures.

You can’t change your past—but you can change the story your future believes. By reflecting, reframing, and ritualizing your life narrative, you can turn setbacks into growth, rewrite limiting identities, and live as the author—not the character—of your unfolding story.

Promotions don’t make leaders—perspective does. This piece maps the Growth Ladder from ego to service: Ego → Competence → Connection → Contribution → Transcendence. Locate your current rung, use Monday-ready moves, and measure progress so your impact—and your world—grow wider.

Optimism isn’t wishful thinking—it’s a method. From Apollo 13 to climate recovery, progress depends on those who treat problems as solvable by default. This essay explores a mindset that powers innovation, rescues missions, and may be our best defense against despair.

In a world that prizes speed and seamlessness, attention has become our scarcest resource. True focus isn’t built on willpower but on ritual — the deliberate pauses and thresholds that protect our mind’s rhythm. The opposite of chaos isn’t control. It’s ritual.

We think our willpower is weak—but the truth is our world is designed to dissolve it. In an age of infinite scrolls, one-click buys, and autoplay everything, self-control isn’t broken—it’s outnumbered. The fix isn’t more grit, but smarter friction: moments that let us pause, choose, and regain control.

Progress is a cycle of noticing anomalies, forming bold conjectures, testing them rigorously and correcting errors. Fleming’s Petri dish shows that mistakes spark breakthroughs. Error-correction velocity measures how fast we learn; even unsolved problems and ethics guide us toward better questions..

Discover why true progress starts within. Explore how shadow work, meaning, self‑transcendence and reinvention fuel sustainable leadership and well‑being. Learn to align your shadow, craft meaning and cultivate awe. Read more on Progress Pursuit. It’s your blueprint for sustainable ambition.

Unmet needs (status, certainty, belonging) drive decisions from the shadows. The piece explores how hidden drivers fuel conflict and self‑sabotage, and offers a 10‑minute practice to surface them and realign choices. Case studies explore founder micromanagement and team conflict.

Your future progress depends on how fast you learn from mistakes. Our article introduces Error‑Correction Velocity (ECV), showing how rapid loops of detecting and fixing errors predict success more than speed alone. It combines Feynman's candor, double‑loop learning into a measurable weekly ritual!!

Why do slogans like “fail fast” mislead? Explanations apply across domains, can be tested and adapted. In our new piece, we introduce the Explanation Stress‑Test to help you separate hype from insight. Explore growth‑mindset evidence, Netflix’s pivot and more. Build your own library of explanations.