rob hardy

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you

I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.

- Bill Plotkin

I've become fully convinced that the only way out of the doom loop is that people have to become absolutely obsessed with an idea that they think can realistically move the needle in a positive direction and they have to be borderline insane in their drive to make it happen

Humans aren’t meant to excavate their inner feelings until they find their “true self.” We become ourselves in relation, not through introspection.