The Burnout Diagnosis Most Industries Refuse to Make Imagine being in a ballroom, listening to Singapore’s Chief Justice deliver an opening address, and somewhere around the middle of it, having to physically restrain yourself from jumping up and down. That is basically what happened to me last July at the Legal Profession Symposium. Not because anything shocking was said. But because the quiet part was FINALLY being said. Out loud, in public. By one of the most respected voices in...

Walking Has the Worst PR in Wellness The wellness industry needs exercise to be hard. If walking counted (and it ABSOLUTELY does), the entire model falls apart. There’s no programme to sell. No app to subscribe to. No 30-day challenge to restart every January because the last one lasted 11 days. You cannot build a content empire around “go outside for 20 minutes.” There is no charismatic founder standing next to a freezing cold plunge explaining that walking is the future of human...

Spring Motivation Is Here. Please Don’t Build Your Life Around It. I grew up in the French Alps, where spring is NOT subtle. One week everything is cold and frozen, the next week the whole valley is aggressively alive. Four seasons, dramatically different, so your body learns the rhythm whether you want it to or not. Then I lived in Singapore for nearly 20 years, with tropical 30+ degrees year-round and no real seasons to speak of. And yet every single March/April, something in my body would...