In the last year I got into investing. Not exactly sure why, but probably a mix of having basically no super and never really having had a lucrative career and I need to think about what future Lawrence’s life looks like. Now they don’t teach you this stuff at school, they should, but they don’t. Anyway, there is an array of online calculator and tools you can use to forcast what your investment growth will look like over time with compounding interest etc.. blah blah blah.  Anyway, the thing...

What Training Taught Me About Life (That I Didn’t Expect) Training didn’t just make me stronger, it trained my ability to repeat hard things. Not once. And not only when I felt motivated. But over and over again, especially when progress slowed. When I first started training, I thought the reward would simply be getting stronger and fitter. And yes, that happened. But what surprised me was what training actually taught m e about life. Strength didn’t come from one big effort in the gym. It...

I feel like there’s a debate that often comes up, a lot in movies or elsewhere about whether or not as people and humans we can really change. Some narratives will say yes people can change, and others say that we never really change from who we are. I guess I’ve never really known whether we do or not, do we fundamentally change or do we adopt habits and work on self improvement, is there a difference. I was reflecting about my dad on a walk recently (often when I do most of my thinking) and...