Tag: Growth
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Last time, we confronted a crucial distinction: the one between the Toxic Tribalism that divides and consumes, and the Functional Tribalism that builds and illuminates. We talked about how our innate human longing for connection, when misdirected, can lead us down paths of outrage and exclusion, creating a false sense of belonging against a common…
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Functional Tribalism vs. Toxic Tribalism: Reclaiming the Instinct Last time, we walked through A Long Drift from Our Roots: How Modernity Destroyed the Tribe. We traced the historical arc of disconnection, from the settling of the Agricultural Revolution to the digital atomization of today. We unpacked the biological and psychological cost of our Stone-Age brains…
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We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, yet a quiet epidemic of loneliness defines much of our modern experience. Why, despite all our advancements and conveniences, does a pervasive sense of emptiness and disconnection persist? In this post, we’re going to pull back the curtain on this paradox, tracing the historical journey that led…
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I have a cure for seventy percent of your problems. I’m not offering a pill you swallow. I’m not a guru you worship. I don’t have a Tik Tok channel you can follow. No. The answer is far more ancient, and far more vital: I’m offering you connection. When we’re in pain, the kind that…
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Most people treat health like a performance. It becomes a game of looking good, chasing aesthetics, or holding on to youth by sheer force of will. Real health, though, is not about appearance so much as it’s about capacity. It’s about how well you can live, move, act, and serve, not just for a week,…
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Stop for a second. Breathe. If your life feels like a slow implosion, if your job grinds your spirit down, your relationship is unraveling, or your days blur into quiet misery, this post is for you. You’re responding exactly as a human should when trapped in the wrong pattern. The pain isn’t proof of your…
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You have a decent job, a family, and a house with a nice lawn and a few weekends away every year. Your résumé reads like stability. Your Instagram looks like joy. On paper, you’re living the dream. So why does it feel like something’s rotting just beneath the surface? Why do you wake up with…
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We spend most of our lives being shaped by the people around us. We’re molded by our families, our schools, our churches, our jobs, and by social media algorithms. We’re also sculpted by culture, trauma, opportunity, and fear. This isn’t some sort of grand “brainwashing” conspiracy; it’s just the nature of things. It’s a function…
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”— Oscar Wilde Most people think the opposite of happiness is sadness. It’s not.The opposite of happiness is boredom. This idea didn’t come from some guru or enlightenment retreat. It came from Tim Ferriss, buried in the pages of “The 4-Hour…
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Every Tribe needs a fire to gather around. For us, that fire is forged from guiding principles: timeless truths hammered out through twenty years of living, failing, building, breaking, and rising again. These aren’t borrowed slogans or feel-good mantras. They are earned. They come from real fights: in relationships, on the trails, in our jobs,…
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In the last post, I shared a simple question: On a normal Tuesday morning, do you enjoy being in your own life? It’s a hard question to dodge. The Tuesday Morning Test strips away illusion and asks whether the life we’ve built is a life that fills us with meaning and purpose. It doesn’t measure…
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We tend to think of life as something we survive, optimize, or escape from… but a better metaphor is a garden. Not the wild chaos of nature untouched, and not the sterile geometry of a spreadsheet, but something living, cultivated, and deeply personal. Something we shape, and that shapes us. Our life is a garden.…