Feb 8, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
There are several costs you’re forced to pay when you treat moral value as optional. First, it tricks you into commoditizing yourself. Relationships become shallow and transaction-based. Fulfillment disappears. Low-grade tension replaces it. Next, your mind tricks you...
Feb 5, 2026 | Essays, Life After Success
By David Tian, Ph.D. Certified IFS Therapy Practitioner (Level 3). Ph.D., University of Michigan, specializing in moral psychology. Former tenure-track professor, National University of Singapore. Brown University Certified Leadership Coach. Private adviser to...
Feb 1, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
Most smart people reach for values when they’re under a lot of pressure or stress. It feels responsible. Grounded. Mature. But under pressure, values often do the opposite of what they’re meant to do. Instead of anchoring thinking, they shut it down. Instead of...
Jan 25, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
Relativism has a seductive force behind it. It offers you short-term relief for your problems – internally, relationally, and professionally. And the worst part is that it works. For a while anyway. But relativist thinking also comes with a brutal, long-term...
