Awareness of your mindset is the portal to change
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The First Week of August (2026)
This is an expanded version of an essay first published in 2025. It pairs perfectly with Session 5 of The Screwtape Letters, which is coming on Saturday.
This photo was taken on August 2, 2025, from an unpaved country lane in New Hampshire...
The Screwtape Letters, Session 4: Drifting and the Life Recovered
"Ten years ago, I turned my face for a moment, and it became my life.”
In my leadership workshops and MBA classes, I used The Heart Aroused by the poet David Whyte. Whyte brought his evocative poetry into the business community and, in the...
When Science Becomes a State Religion
Whatever Rand Paul draws out of Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Senate today, Fauci’s admirers are unlikely to reconsider their faith in him. To them, he remains less a fallible public official than a secular saint of science.
Paul has exposed a...
The Screwtape Letters, Session 3: The Trough Is Where the Work Begins
Character is not a thing you have and then express; it is a thing you build by repetition, act by act, until the repetition has made a disposition.
Wormwood has written to report what he thinks is good news. His patient’s religious phase,...
Hail the Hollow AI Caesar
In Goethe’s 1797 poem “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the apprentice, alone in his master’s house, wants to multiply himself to shirk his work. He enchants a broom to fetch water from the well so he will not have to. The broom, lacking any cog...
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Educator and the author of The Inner-Work of Leadership; contributing writer at the American Institute for Economic Research and the Foundation for Economic Education. Mindset Shifts U is a book study feature of his Substack, Mindset Shifts.
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