Swart Donkey

Part of how we are weighed and measured is how much income we make. The assumption being that salary (the price of our labour) is a useful d...

Find others whose paths resonate with yours. There are lots of people who are generous and willing to talk about the challenges that they ha...

Create cycles of learning. Repeated periods of trial and error where you act and then reflect. If in each of those cycles, there is a little...

Relativity is one of the biggest obstacles to mental health. When we wish we were in the position of someone else, and judge ourselves throu...

The challenge we face with politics is that we want it. The most political people I know use phrases like “leave your ego at the door”, and ...

My oldest brother used to love (as a Medical Student) asking, “What do you call a Medical Student who gets 50% for their final exam?”. The a...

Stilling the waves of money anxiety is not about having more. In the same way, competitive yoga makes no sense. Although, being people, we h...

Money anxiety has the ability to flood our minds. This can be long-term stress where we don’t know how to overcome the barriers to the incom...

I don’t want what I am supposed to want. I have a competitive wiring, so people who have known me in previous incarnations will have seen my...

A lot of people work best under pressure. When they have to. When they are in a corner. I am the opposite. I don’t like myself in a corner u...

Bob Dylan sings about fat men and thin men looking for dignity. Searching high, searching low. Have you seen dignity? It is one of my bigges...

Meritocracy, that cares who and how good you are, only applies to one of the three key elements of making money. Meritocracy applies to the ...

Meritocracy is supposed to be a push back on Hereditary Privilege. The idea of social mobility where you can still make a success of life an...

A foundation of our superiority challenges is a core belief in Second Class Citizens. It is hard to separate out some of the complex probl...

I hate feeling incompetent. Almost as much as I hate the feeling of having gotten it wrong by someone. In a way that I can’t correct. Inte...

If you want to be part of an Elite Team, you first have to accept the idea that there are people that aren’t good enough. You have to accep...

How do we wean ourselves off structural income dependence? Even most of the wealthy live hand-to-mouth in a fragile way. We don’t look at ...

You are not your job. Your income doesn’t determine your quality of life. Your success is not signaled by how much you consume. We are not...

The most traditionally successful people I know are also the most pragmatic. The world tells you the answers if you are willing to accept ...

Milk doesn’t come from the shops. It comes from Cows. Most of the products we now end up using are assembled from bits that come from all ...