The global financial system isn’t just failing—it’s built to concentrate power and enforce dependencies. From manipulated currencies to top-down “sustainability” mandates that require constant intervention, control is the real currency. This article cuts through the noise, exposing how economic coercion operates and why we’ve been conditioned to accept it. Using the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, Metacontent, and the Being Framework, it maps the deeper structures shaping our economic...

The Empire’s Fragile Bedrock: Why The Global Economy Is Unsustainable and How It Holds Humanity Hostage

Every human being must choose how they engage with existence—lead, conform, or control. The Crowd avoids responsibility, seeking comfort in conformity and scapegoating those who challenge them. The Elite manipulates responsibility, engineering narratives to maintain power. The Leader takes responsibility and aligns with reality. Leadership isn’t about titles—it’s about those who hold things together, whether in families, communities, or entire civilisations. Every home has someone who ca...

The Silent Weight of Leadership: The Grace of Responsibility, the Illusion of Power, and the Betrayal of Conformity

The Perils of Shallow Thinking in a Complex World—Breaking Free from the Illusion of Instant Understanding

We don’t just take mental shortcuts—we pass judgment and act upon them, mistaking biases for truth, assumptions for knowledge, and gut reactions for wisdom. This leads to missed opportunities, broken relationships, career stagnation, and large-scale societal dysfunction.

This article reveals the illusion of instant understanding, exposing how intellectual laziness distorts reali...

The Curse of Snap Judgments: How Intellectual Laziness and Mental Shortcuts Are Wrecking Your Life and Society

Leadership, Collapse, and the Price of Holding It All Together

This article examines the tragedy of unsustainable systems, where leadership becomes an act of self-sacrifice, with a few carrying the burden while others remain passive. It critiques the myth of the miracle-working leader, expected to hold everything together, only to be blamed when collapse is inevitable. It explores the failure of modulation—the illusion that restructuring, new processes, or morale-boosting can save a system ...

The Tragedy of the Unsustainable System: The Leader Who Burns Like a Candle at Both Ends

How Expressing Human Emotion Got You Branded Aggressive in a World Obsessed with Politeness, the Blurred Line Between Assertiveness and Aggression, and the Ontological Cost of Playing Nice

In an age where even a flicker of justified frustration can get you labelled as "aggressive," we’ve quietly rebranded professionalism as emotional repression. This article explores the dangerously blurred line between assertiveness and aggression — and how tone-policing, social conditioning and cultural...

The Sin of Tone: Repression, Strawmen, and the Slow Death of Assertiveness in Modern Work and Life

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The Lie in Being Honest — The Arrogance of Being “Real” explores how modern culture has mistaken authenticity for unfiltered expression, emotional exhibitionism and impulsive truth-dumping. In this sharp, darkly humorous and philosophically grounded critique, Ashkan Tashvir dismantles the widespread illusion that saying whatever one feels—whenever one feels it—is a virtue.

Drawing o...

The Lie in Being Honest — The Arrogance of Being “Real”

Why Playing Nice Is Killing Your Integrity, Dulling Your Impact, and Keeping You Addicted to the Performance of Goodness—Because Real Virtue Isn’t Always Polite, and You Know It

This isn’t a polite think-piece about ethics. It’s a loaded punch to the gut of your moral posturing. In a world obsessed with being seen as “appropriate,” this article exposes the performance of goodness we’ve come to mistake for virtue—and calls it out for what it really is: fear, obedience, and cura...

The Virtue of Being Inappropriate: Fuck (Not F*ck!) Appropriate—Because the Asterisk Is Just Another Muzzle

The Inner Architecture and Ontological Blueprint of a Sacred Fire Reclaimed

This is not another piece romanticising passion or reducing intensity to a personality quirk. The Gravity of Intensity is a visceral, poetic, and piercing journey into the essence of what it means to live—truly live—from the core of your Being. It’s a love letter to those who’ve been called “too much,” “too deep,” “too intense”—those who burn quietly but undeniably.
In a world addicted to neutra...

The Gravity of Intensity— An Overlooked Ontological Presence: Reclaiming the Fire Within

What Pulls You and What Calls You — The Subtle Art of Ontological Discernment

In a world where “being yourself” is celebrated as the highest virtue — and often confused with impulsivity, oversharing, or curated emotional chaos — how do we live in a way that’s authentic without being reckless, expressive without being performative, and free without being feral?

This article invites you into the heart of a deeper ontological paradox: how to unleash the fullness of your unique Bei...

Reconciliation of Repression, Expression, and Responsiveness

A Piercing Little Gift for Anyone Addicted to Poetic Pain and the Illusion of Growth

This isn’t a gentle essay about self-discovery — it’s a ruthless interrogation of the emotional theatre we mistake for transformation. In a world where personal development has been hijacked by aesthetic vulnerability, curated breakdowns, and poetic self-deception, sentimentalism has become the invisible enemy. This article exposes how we romanticise our pain, narrate our healing instead of living it, a...

The Theatre of Sentimentalism: Why You’re Still Acting Instead of Becoming

A Reflection on Loss, Legacy, the Sacred Ontology of Grief, the Fulfilment of a Life, and the Content That Endures

This is not just an article. It is an encounter. A reflection. A reckoning with grief—not as a moment of sorrow, but as an ontological event. "Grief, the Mirror of Being" is a deeply human meditation on what it means to lose someone who mattered, not only to your heart, but to your Becoming.

This piece was written in honour of John Lowe, my beloved friend, reviewer, collabor...

The Silence That Speaks: Death, Transformation, and the Ontological Culmination of a Human Life

The Co-Creation of Thought, the Fraud of Pretending Otherwise, and the Lingering Guilt of the Originality Myth

Tired of the guilt trips, gatekeeping, and performative purity spirals around using AI? This article doesn’t just defend thoughtful AI use—it dismantles the lazy moral panic surrounding it.

“AI Wrote This and Other Lazy Lies We Tell Ourselves” is a manifesto for writers, coaches, creators, and leaders who refuse to outsource their soul—or their responsibility.
It critiq...

“AI Wrote This” and Other Lazy Lies We Tell Ourselves

As an emerging leader with aspirations to climb the corporate ladder or transition to a more fulfilling career, do you believe you have to pretend to be someone you’re not to be accepted? Do you sometimes doubt yourself or feel unheard, unseen and undervalued? If so, you’re not alone. Putting on a fake persona in the workplace is more common than many people realise. However, there are significant costs in doing so. In this article, Jeanette Mundy explains why the adage that you have to ‘f...

Sick of changing who you are to fit in?

As a sales leader, be it an individual sales director, account manager, business development professional or sales manager, you are constantly interacting with and leading people, whether they are reporting to you or indirectly supporting you to win your next deal for the company. Empowering clients and supporting them with solutions to their problems always comes back to interpersonal relationships. And we all know what every relationship needs: trust. The question is, how can you build trust r...

Building trust in the sales relationship

Stepping into an account management or sales leadership role can be challenging, especially if your sales deals can take 12–24 months or longer to secure. Complexities show up throughout the purchasing cycle, from qualifying a new opportunity, engaging clients with presentations and sharing your solution’s capabilities to producing, presenting and negotiating a project contract to implement the solution. As a sales leader, how can you remain effective throughout such a lengthy process, espec...

4 factors that contributed to winning large & complex sales deals

You need to work on your business, not in your business. As a business owner, you’ve probably heard this line multiple times, be it from business advisors or well-meaning people trying to help. But does the thought of delegating some of the operational tasks you currently do yourself to make your business a success seem too far from your reach? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic reveals seven steps to gradually remove yourself from your business' operational functions and e...

Get yourself out of your business' operations: The 7 steps

It's easy to feel isolated, different, alone and excluded when dealing with a disbaility that impacts you 24/7. While some disabilities are visible because they are obvious, there are a vast number of hidden or invisible conditions that affect people's daily lives just as significantly. Many people choose to keep their hidden disability a secret, often not realising the toll that decision can take until things start spiralling out of control. In this article, Wayne Stickel, a wellbeing and effec...

The role of a community in supporting people with hidden disabilities to flourish

When we are at the receiving end of obstacles and unexpected detours, it’s easy to get stuck in the trap of victimhood. If you manage a team with members who are constantly locked in complaint mode and find it difficult to turn the situation around, team morale can be impacted, slowing productivity. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a background in senior leadership roles in the corporate environment and archetypal consulting, explains how and what we can...

Is your team stuck in Victimhood mentality

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...

Are you thinking of becoming a coach?

It is natural to want to understand why you are the way you are. But once you have that insight, what can you do about it if you discover areas that aren’t serving you? Traditional theories and approaches suggest that you learn how to manage your fixed traits or set short-term action plans to change certain habits or behaviours. In this article, Lucy Faulconer, General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, reveals how she and many other coaches, le...

How the Being Profile facilitates our ability to transform

Are you a business owner who feels overwhelmed and frustrated because you are constantly putting out fires? Is addressing whatever issue pops up on any given day preventing you from being the proactive, strategic and productive leader you want to be who is working towards achieving a clearly defined set of goals? If so, you are not alone. Anthea Stevanovic explains why this issue is so common and the steps she uses to successfully support her clients to elevate themselves from firefighters to fu...

Are you a firefighter or a business owner?

Modern society has provided an opportunity to redefine the traditional male and female roles that have been passed down from father to son and mother to daughter for millennia. However, rather than treat each other as humans and appoint the best person for the job, we seem to be caught up in the need to balance the power between the sexes, for example, by electing women just because there are too many men at the top. In this article, John Williams discusses why healthy masculinity is no threat t...

Why healthy masculinity is no threat to feminine empowerment, and “real men” are not afraid of women having power

Being part of a sales organisation as a key account, customer engagement, or customer success manager can be challenging. It requires you to balance organisational, client and partner interests while constantly looking out for opportunities to solve problems for clients and secure the next deal to grow company revenue. One key challenge is identifying where to spend the most time and effort. Another is to determine for which of your customer’s problems your organisation’s solution is a match...

How to deal with running out of time as a sales leader

It is often in the most challenging situations that we learn what we are truly made of. They also teach us the most valuable lessons. But that does not make them easy. And it can be tempting to run away or turn a blind eye to a situation we would prefer not to deal with. In this article, leadership and confidence coach Helen Robinett shares a personal case study when tough leadership decisions had to be made and she was the only one who could make them. She also explains the factors that allowed...

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