What Effort Reveals
Marc DupontResearch-based and personal reflections on effort, learning, and the self beneath performance. Writing that pays attention to what falls away as we stay curious, and show courage as we learn and change.
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Arrival
Most of us don’t think of ourselves as people who avoid our lives. We think we’re being reasonable. Careful. Waiting for the right time.
But if you look closely, there are small, almost invisible moments, where something in front of you co...
What Recovery Asks of Us Now
This article touches on what may start in the body — injury, recovery, the things we’ve all been taught to do. But it quickly becomes something else, because healing is never just physical.
We all remember RICE, right? Rest. Ice. Compressi...
Social media bans for kids
Note to the reader: This original essay was written December, 2025. Late-March 2026 U.S. court rulings related to this topic are noted mid-story.
What caught me this morning, reading about Australia’s new social-media ban for under-16s,...
Adult growing pains
We have a name for growing pains when we are young. We expect awkwardness then. We expect the ache in the knees, the sudden stretch of bone and tendon, the moods, the confusion, the strange feeling of outgrowing one version of ourselves bef...
Holding Space
I can’t remember the first time I heard the expression holding space.
It might have been sometime in my early forties, during a period when I was in therapy for a while. At the time, I remember dismissing it a little. It sounded like soft...
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Writer and endurance athlete exploring effort as inquiry. I write about what lies beneath performance in sport, work, and relationships — including fear and identity — and what happens when the strategies that once carried us begin to fail.
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