“Let me ‘just check’ my email before I get back to drafting this report,” you tell yourself, jumping from your Google Doc to your inbox. Task switching might seem harmless, it might even feel productive. But beware. It can feel like you’re moving faster, but every switch has a hidden cognitive cost. This switching is quietly killing your productivity and undermining the quality of your output. The better, alternative approach? Deep focus blocks.

A huge part of any culture - whether a nation, an organisation, a family or you - is what it values. So, as we approach the end of 2025 and you start to think about goals, resolutions and plans for the new year, I encourage you to step back and ask a different question: what type of person do I want to be in 2026?

Do you struggle with low energy in the morning and throughout the day, or perhaps find that you lie awake at night feeling “tired but wired”? This is a strong signal that your cortisol rhythm could be dysregulated. Here are five ways you can boost your energy by working with your cortisol.

It’s more dangerous when we don’t know who we are. When we aren’t able to sort through the noise of opinion and focus on our own personality traits, we end up in trouble. We end up blowing in the wind of other people’s lives.

Earlier this week, I had a moment where I felt it was all too much. I felt overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious. So many great things have been happening with Wildest Dream recently, but it’s been a lot. And in that moment, it felt like too much for me to handle.

It was normal to go to a good school. Normal to go on amazing holidays. Normal to go through $70,000 of higher education. Normal to think the only two career paths out of business school were investment banking and management consulting. Normal to move to Thailand on an amazing salary. Normal to be told you could be the company’s zone president. Normal, normal, normal.