Kenneth Collett

Category: Purpose

  • Master the art of living

    A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine…

  • The story you tell yourself, is it working?

    We all have stories we tell ourselves. We’re either justifying who we are, or we’re shaping who we will become. Your business is the same. It has a stories about the industry you’re in, and the way things get done. And those stories shapes your customers’ experiences. But is the story working? Or is the…

  • The experience of fairness

    Humans have an innate sense of what is fair, and our sense of fairness is apart from where we grow up, or how old we are, or what we believe. When you behave in a way that’s counter to our intuitive sense of what is fair you create a terrible experience. We suffer an offence.…

  • Stepping stones to serendipity

    It’s true that great experiences can be truly serendipitous, that they can happen entirely by chance. But chance doesn’t scale. You don’t have a great experience at Disneyland by chance, you have a great experience at Disneyland by design. We seem to value serendipity though, the feeling of discovery, of stumbling upon something great. And…

  • The telos of experience

    Experience design seems to be a consequentialist act. Of course our intentions matter, but it seems likely that success or failure of an experience will be judged by the outcomes rather than by the intentions. We can imagine a case in which we’re at a restaurant, and something goes wrong… perhaps we take a mouthful…

  • Helpfulness, reassurance and the end goal

    Helpful. I didn’t get here by myself, not by a long shot. You didn’t either. We all got a lot of help along the way. And we need to help others. We might think we have a choice in it, but we probably don’t. It might be that the only choice we have is whether…

  • If you want to do it, do it for them

    There’s so much stuff we want to do, all of us, things we want to accomplish. We’re the centre of those narratives. And yet, when we put someone else at the centre of those narratives, the likelihood of us getting where we want to go seems to go waaaay up. It’s empirical. Just look at…

  • Spend or pass

    We can choose to spend our time, or pass our time. Spending is on purpose, it’s a choice, it doesn’t happen by accident. Passing just happens. We don’t decide. Time passes whether we decide what to do with it or not. So will you choose to spend your time, or pass your time? And when…

  • Try it on

    Finding the things that lead to our flourishing can sometimes be a little confusing. Part of the process of flourishing comes from leaning into who we really are, from figuring out the difference between what we want and what we only think we want. It can be confusing because sometimes it’s hard to tell the…

  • Take action, on purpose

    I’ve very much enjoyed these past days and months. That’s not too say they have all been fun, or that they’ve all been easy. There’s been a pandemic after all. And yet I have enjoyed these days and months very, very much. I think it is much easy to enjoy moments, days, months, even tough…

  • You should be a poet

    We can all be poets if we apply our mind and our intentions. What’s a poet? I think it can simply be someone who chooses to try and write beautifully. I think it can be you. There is no governing body that says who can and who can’t be poetic. One simply chooses to try.…

  • How To Increase The Quantity And Quality Of Our Purpose-Full Epiphanies

    Our biology can increase the number of epiphanies we have by strengthening relevant mental connections and pruning away connections to irrelevant ideas, providing we tune our biology towards our purpose journey.

  • Rituals Are A Secret Weapon To Defeat `The Scroll´, And Be The Person We Want To Be.

    A ritual is an act that sends a signal, often of a transition. When facing down the distractions of the ‘Scroll’, rituals are our secret weapon.

  • When To Have A Say Yes Attitude, And When To Say No.

    When we are between purposes, say Yes to almost everything. When we are on-purpose, say No to almost everything.