On Experience – Why This Conversation Exists
For most of my career, I’ve been wrestling with the same question: How do you turn what you know into something of value? And inside that, what allows one person to cut through and have a flourishing career while others with similar experience and expertise don’t? That’s been a personal challenge and a common conversation […]
When Experience Works Against You with Mark Molony
When Mark Molony walked into his first day as a social worker, he thought his training had prepared him for anything. Then a grieving widow said six words and every assumption he had fell apart. In this extract from our On Experience conversation, Mark, now a Mindfulness Teacher, exposes the insight that the most dangerous […]
Why Talking About Your Expertise Isn’t Enough
When you’ve spent years building experience, and you get to the point where working harder isn’t changing anything, you start to wonder if the issue is how you’re explaining what you do. You start thinking, maybe I just need to say this better. So you refine it. You simplify the language and try a few […]
Experience and the Space Before Reaction with Mark Molony
In this On Experience conversation, I speak with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony about experience, judgement, awareness, and the subtle ways expertise can both help us and mislead us. What began as a discussion about mindfulness gradually unfolded into something broader: How do we use experience without becoming trapped by it? Together, we explore: Practice Wisdom […]
Why Working Harder Isn’t Working
If you’ve spent years building experience, you may have been in this situation. You’re putting in the effort, you’re doing the work, and you’re showing up, delivering, thinking, refining. And yet… nothing really changes. At least, not in any meaningful way. ? At first, it’s easy to explain away. You tell yourself: “I just need to […]