New for members: The Inner Architecture of Performance, chapter by chapter

Mind

Emotion, attention, letting go, the old patterns we carry.

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The Inner Architecture of Performance

How emotion, attention and awareness shape what we can reach in the moment.

Fifteen articles
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The Art and Science of Flow

What it feels like when the self goes quiet, what makes room for that, and what a life looks like when more of it is lived from the inside.

Five parts
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The Measured Interior

Nine inquiries on wellbeing, the body, flow, connection, meaning, setback, and the person who coaches.

Nine parts
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The Dimmer Switch

On epigenetics: what it is, what researchers are looking at, and how much of it we can change.

9 min read
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What the Body Carries

On stress, old emotional patterns, and the complicated relationship between mind and health.

16 min read
Meditation

The Load That Was Never Yours

On the invisible weight that keeps us from our potential.

20 min read
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The Power of Emotions

What nineteen feelings, from fear to awe, reveal about intelligence, love, work and hard times, and how to let their power work for you instead of on you.

Five movements
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What Feelings Are For

Four essays on what emotions do for us, what pressure does to attention and the body, what steers a feeling without silencing it, and how attention is trained.

Four parts
Meditation

Transmit or Transform

What we do with the pain that finds us.

10 min read
Inquiry

The Weather You Never Notice

On the quiet states you don't notice: the best idea in this map, and the one with the least evidence behind it.

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Capacity and Composure

What training makes possible, what pressure interrupts, and why my left hand works better when I stop watching it.

8 min read
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Bare Attention

Mindfulness began as one part of a path. What the market kept, what it left behind, and why that matters to the people practicing it.

6 min read
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A Few Moments of Calm

What a few minutes of shared stillness can do for a team, what the research does and does not show, and the cost worth counting.

7 min read
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Back Within the Window

What keeps a stressed nervous system locked on, why rest alone is sometimes not enough, and the slow, ordinary work of bringing it home.

8 min read
Inquiry

Determined, and Free

Do we author our choices or only witness them? A look at the oldest argument, and why knowing yourself may be the part of freedom you can use.

14 min read
Meditation

Moving Through

What a childhood hands you, what you can set down, and how to tell the difference.

9 min read
Meditation

Letting Go of What Doesn’t Serve Us

An old parable about a glass of water, and how long we keep holding what no longer serves us.

24 min read
Meditation

Against the Stream

What I found when I finally looked over the side of the boat.

6 min read
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Sitting With Yourself

What meditation actually is, and why the hardest part was never the technique.

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The Two Five-Year-Olds

Why certain people reach places in us others don't, and why the same fight keeps finding you.