Archive - Thinking Out Loud

Why real change feels weird, unfamiliar and wrong

If you always do what feels familiar, you will never change

Mar 14 •

Michael Ashcroft

Notes on friendship as a co-adventure

Friends are for living life with, not just for talking about life with

Mar 7 •

Michael Ashcroft

February 2024

Notes on identity: authenticity vs 'profilicity'

Feb 17 •

Michael Ashcroft

September 2023

Blunt not the heart | #64

3 September 2023: Shakespeare on feeling emotions, some Write of Passage workshops, and a podcast I was on

Sep 3, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

August 2023

Grieve the road not taken | #63

17 August 2023 :: Re-emerging after some time in my body-mind. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. Here are some thoughts on the road not…

Aug 17, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

April 2023

Choose what you want to feel rewarding | #62

Bouncing around apps first thing in the morning like a squirrel on meth might feel rewarding, but is it really what you want to feel rewarded by?

Apr 15, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

Thoughts on Twitter and my creative behaviour | #61

Why I want to spend less time on Twitter, and more time on platforms like Substack and YouTube that encourage deeper thought, research and refinement.

Apr 8, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

March 2023

You are large, you contain multitudes | #60

In response to the advice to "be yourself", perhaps the answer should be "which one?"

Mar 26, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

Job titles are contemporary archetypal energies | #59

4 March 2023 :: Whether you are a CEO, a manager, an engineer or a clerk, how much of your motivation, goals and focus come from you vs the 'energy' you…

Mar 4, 2023

February 2023

When the body knows more than the mind | #58

25 Feb 2023 :: It wasn't heartburn

Feb 25, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

Staying alive to aliveness | #57

Would you rather be sensitive to everything, good and bad, or live within a narrowed range of experience?

Feb 18, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

A densely-patterned fabric of meaningful stories | #56

Greetings from London. My year of nomad adventures has come to an end. But as I close the curtain on that phase of my life, I'm looking ahead to the…

Feb 11, 2023 •

Michael Ashcroft

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