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 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...
Jan 18, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
A tragedy occurs when you reach a certain level of achievement: The mind starts to reorder itself for destruction instead of growth. Worst part? This happens so subtly that it goes completely unnoticed… until it’s too late. As achievements accumulate, decision quality...
Jan 11, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
There’s a pattern that’s so ingrained in the human psyche that Ancient Daoism noticed it long before psychology had language for cognition. It’s a pattern that sneaks up on almost every high achiever who tastes enough success. And it subtly erodes your judgement and...
Jan 4, 2026 | Beyond Success Podcast
When you’re just starting out in your career, the feedback loop is crystal clear. There’s a cause and effect to your actions that lead to instantaneous rewards or consequences. But the more success you achieve, the more muddled this signal becomes. And the more...
