This blog is about leadership and personal growth — in one thousand words or fewer.
Why the limit? Because in a world flooded with content and starved for time, I believe brevity sharpens clarity. Every post on this blog will aim to inform, challenge, or inspire without asking more than a few focused minutes of your day.
The idea behind the blog is further explored in the “My Story” section, but here’s what you need to know: each Tuesday, I’ll publish one post, called PLAY, capped to 1,000 words, exploring ideas around:
- Success and failure
- Calling and career
- Maximizing personal potential
- Many facets of leadership
- Self-awareness and development
- Curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and decision-making,
along with many other topics — including some suggested by readers. Each Play will come with a reflection worksheet designed to help the reader to move from reading to doing.
And then, each Friday, I’ll comment on a book that has shaped my perspective and which is related more or less to the week’s subject.
What Makes This Blog Different
Almost every post will end with a few questions, designed to spark reflection and dialogue. I often use this approach in my mentoring sessions, under a simple yet powerful theme:
“What should you ask the person in the mirror?”
Of course, this method isn’t new. It dates back nearly 2,500 years to Socrates, the master of asking, rather than answering. When students came to him with questions, he responded with his questions, and then more questions. According to legend, these exchanges could go on for hours.
At first, his students were likely frustrated; expecting answers, but they found themselves drawn deeper into uncertainty. But Socrates knew, as they eventually discovered, that the most meaningful answers are the ones we uncover for ourselves.
A Modern Socratic Space
This blog is not a classroom, and I’m no philosopher. But like Socrates, I believe in the power of thoughtful questioning. The blog format may limit live dialogue — but it doesn’t prevent it.
Some readers may reach out, and I’ll do my best to respond. But more important, the questions at the end of each post are meant to invite you into a conversation with yourself.
They’re not about “the right answers,” but about your answers. I hope you’ll surface your insights, wisdom, and direction, through reflection and introspection.
Ask yourself the hard questions, be honest with your answers, and keep asking.
In doing so, you may just become your own Socrates.