About Peter’s Essays

Hello! My name is Peter.

I am a curious person, and my perpetual curiosity has led me to this place. A place where I can explore what is, to me, the most important thing to be curious about: how to live well.

By living well, I mean being happy, healthy, and high-performing in whatever it is you choose to do.

Successful leaders and entrepreneurs often talk about obsession - total commitment to a craft, which is required for true success in that area. But I’ve always been pretty balanced, moderate. No one specific thing, like tennis, or law, has been intrinsically interesting or important enough to me to become truly obsessed.

Except for this.

I am obsessed with learning from all sorts of books, cultures, ideologies, and experiences to find the overlapping principles on how to live a good life. . . the collective wisdom that exists somewhere between us all.

While doing this for myself is its own reward, it feels incomplete to me without sharing with others. So I also love to share my insights to help others find meaning and inspiration, or to nudge them a little bit further down the path of personal growth.

For years I have written to myself to refine my own thoughts, but I have rarely made these thoughts public except in personal conversations. Now, I’d like to change that.

As with all of my writing, I am primarily doing this to refine my understanding of the world and myself. This is what allows me to focus on the integrity of the process without attachment to the outcome. But I do care deeply about making my writings beneficial for others, too, and will write with that in mind.

There will be no set cadence to my writing. I may write daily, monthly, or even quarterly. I will write when I feel like there's something worth writing about, and only then.

My essays will likely cover a wide variety of topics. Some may resonate, some may not. Take what is useful, and discard the rest. My only hope is that my writing will provoke new ideas and inspiration within you as well.

Thanks for reading,

Peter

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