“Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn.” —Matthew McConaughey

Workshop #1 gave you the map. Workshop #2 taught you where to start. This one explains why it's hard—and why that's the point.

Workshop #1 gave you the map. This one tells you where to start: ignorance. Your gut knows things your mind hasn't caught up to yet. We begin there.

This isn’t going to be a TikTok video; it won’t effortlessly entertain you for 30 seconds, then move you to the next engaging digital morsel.

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

The military has a term, known as the Kill Chain: from Sensor to Shooter. Instinctive leaders have their own 'Kill Chain: Sight to Success.'

I was born in Northern Ireland on January 5th, 1971, at the beginning of a thirty-year war...

It is October 2025, and my son is eleven years old...

We were free soloing in the Swiss Alps—not because we were advanced rock climbers, but because we had never seen climbing gear…..

I would shoot right through a baby to kill a Catholic……

You are the most dangerous guy in the room…..

In conflict, it is rarely possible to find permanent peace — but rather an enduring ceasefire.

I am a pacifist. I am the gentlest person I know!

It was 1987. I was sixteen, carrying my grandmother's coffin to the graveside……

Can we just have the magic without the mayhem?

One advantage of being raised by wolves is extraordinary unsupervised free time…….

Because of my early years, very little could make me afraid...

We build towering monuments to our success while blithely ignoring the places that give that success meaning.

A man called last night to say he was standing on a table with a rope around his neck…..

We're on a mountain in Germany called The Wank. Bethany looks tired but determined. I look like an extra from Schindler's List……