Why more and more people are ditching the clichéd trophies of success for a richer experience of life

What if you could get paid to just be you?

Many of us spend our lives on what writer David Brooks calls the first mountain. Happiness here tends to be individual. Some never leave this place.

There is no such thing as the perfect time

The last couple of years have given us all a chance to reflect and perhaps get some perspective on where we’re going in life, and what’s really matters when the chips are down.

It can feel uncomfortable, even scary, to start unleashing your ideas on the world.

In the early days of running our first company I remember a business mentor asking us what our exit strategy was. I had no idea. “Death” was all I could offer.

“You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.” Johann Hari, Lost Connections

“Most people know how to work on Sunday evening. But no one yet knows how to go to the cinema on Monday afternoon.” Ricardo Semler in Seven Day Weekend