The Champion Principle
What MMA reveals about performing under psychological pressure.
10 min
Selected press interviews, essays and reading lists — on leadership, the business of sport and media, and the psychology of performance.
Authority is never neutral. Why a leader broadcasts not their strategy but the structure of their unconscious desire — and the organization picks it up.
12 min · Read essay →
What MMA reveals about performing under psychological pressure.
10 min
Libidinal energy is the substrate of ambition, vision and risk. On integration, range, and the alive leader.
11 min · Read essay →
PsychologyThe persona, the shadow, and the most dangerous confusion in a human life. On individuation and the return to self.
13 min · Read essay →
Burnout as a collapse of meaning, not a deficit of energy.
14 min
2020
The head of UFC Eurasia on the Nielsen study, pandemic-era damage, and the monetisation of sports content.
022024
A reading list spanning works that help separate signal from noise and non-fiction bestsellers on balancing work and life.
032024
Why some people perform under psychological pressure while others fall apart — and what executives can borrow from elite fighters.