Patterns 3 min read

My brain almost kept me from moving to Madrid

The Default Mode Network runs half your life on autopilot, and it protects the person you already are like it's sacred. Here is what happened when I broke the pattern.

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Perception 3 min read

Why your reality isn't real

Your brain receives an estimated 11 million bits of information every second and consciously processes around 40. Everything you believe about your life is built on a sliver of what's there.

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Environment 4 min read

The people around you are contagious

Behaviours, emotions, and habits travel through our relationships. We catch them from the people around us, and pass them on. Your environment is architecture.

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Visualisation 4 min read

Everything they told you about manifestation is wrong. And right.

Your brain does not fully distinguish vivid imagination from real experience. But imagination without action builds pathways to nowhere. The science of visualisation, honestly told.

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Inner critic 2 min watch

Your inner critic is not your personality

It is a neural pathway. A clip from my talk at FoundHer Madrid on the neuroscience of reinvention, on why being hard on yourself does the opposite of what you think.

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Identity 4 min read

Why “just be yourself” is the worst advice

Your self is not a fixed truth. It is a collection of neural pathways built through repetition. Which means the version of you that feels stuck is not your personality. It is programming.

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Neuroplasticity 4 min read

Why most people lose what time abroad gave them

I left Amsterdam for seven months and ran the most fun experiment I ever ran on my own brain. Then I came home, and felt my old self trying to reinstall. Here is how I kept the new one.

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