Control Under Pressure

A free masterclass on hypnosis. What it is, how it works at the level of brainwaves, what it can and cannot do, and every misconception worth clearing up.

If I had to start life again I would trade every other skill for two. Why the confidence that you can regulate yourself is worth more than the technique.

The Coke Zero next to two Big Macs, and why stacking 0.1% optimisations is what keeps you from fixing the things that would actually change your results.

Three landing attempts into a storm over London, a stranger called Amina, and what is left when you genuinely control nothing outside yourself.

The job I turned down at eighteen, why freedom means time, mental quiet and money in that order, and the two day rule I use to defend it.

Very capable people often plateau precisely because they are so good at thinking that they forget to live. What to do when your only tool is a hammer.

Seven out of ten clients who come to me are in some form of burnout. What that says about the people who are supposed to be doing best.

Some people feel pressure from too much work. You feel it when you stop. Why that happens, and the bias underneath it.

A job interview I failed on purpose, a thank you that arrived fifteen years late, and why the process has to be enough on its own.

An acupuncturist asked me about a place in my mind I was certain did not exist. What happened next, and what it taught me about internalising control.

Insight is not regulation. Why understanding where an emotion comes from often does nothing for your ability to handle it, and what does.

How a teenager in Bucharest kept winning tournaments against players who practised five times more, and what that has to do with performance under pressure.