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Welcome to the Reading Room. Your private library for everything confidence, power, discipline, and habits. Inside, you’ll find high-level teachings written to provide you with real, lasting change.

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All articles for 2025 are now published.


The Reading Room will reopen with Article No. 45 on Sunday, 11 January 2026.

Until then, members are invited to revisit every article, guide, essay, reflection, and archive piece from the past year.

Both Residents and Private Members have full access to the Reading Room, including the most-read pieces and the ones that never made it to Instagram.

We’ll see you in January with a fresh new collection of reading materials to support your transformation.

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Why Failing Fast and Failing Often Will Skyrocket Your Success

It’s now easier than ever to get a glimpse into the lives of other people.

Everywhere you turn it seems as though everyone is living their best lives, climbing career ladders, settling down in healthy relationships, looking happier, and healthier and wealthier.

But what you don’t often see are the setbacks, the obstacles and the failures they overcame to reach that point in their life.

Although failure isn’t a great feeling, it can be what you need to achieve success in every area of your life.

“Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I suspected.” — JK Rowling

So, despite how it feels to fail, the other side of it is that it will play a crucial part in your growth, which can lead to changing everything.

In this article, I’m going to share a few reasons why you should embrace failure.

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How To Know if You Are Being LOVE-BOMBED

The concept of love bombing is a harsh reality, one that some people would rather not address, but most, don’t even realise it’s happening.

At its core, love-bombing is a manipulative behaviour where someone showers you with excessive affection, compliments, and attention to win you over quickly only to later down the line.

And while this may seem flattering initially, love bombing is an act that often has an ulterior motive with the end goal resulting in control or influence.

In this article, I’m going to share how you can quickly spot the signs of a love bomb and how you can detonate it before it explodes.

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