
Essays on effort, identity, fear, ageing, and the self beneath performance. Writing about what shifts when familiar roles no longer fit, and how curiosity, courage, and attention can keep a life open to change.
| Platform | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily | |
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| Issues | 33 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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When I started What Effort Reveals, I imagined it would include a lot more writing about triathlon, training, endurance sport and the strange things we voluntarily do to ourselves in the name of becoming better.
Instead, somewhere along th...
This is so me. Picture a simple dinner table, good food, easy conversation, nothing particularly consequential happening. Then I notice a loose thread in something someone has said.
I immediately want to pull it.
Someone else sees the sam...
For most of my life, I drank Guinness. But whenever someone asked me what my favourite beer was, my answer was usually the same: The one I haven’t tried yet.
I was being playful, of course. But the truth is, I meant it.
The worst that cou...
A note on perspective: I write here from where I stand: as one man loving a woman at this threshold, inside a relationship shaped by gender in ways both visible and hidden. This is not meant to speak for every couple, every woman, every man...
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...
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Writer exploring what effort reveals in relationships, work, sport, and everyday life: fear, identity, ageing, discomfort, and the unexpected growth that can begin when what once carried us no longer quite works.
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