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What if childhood, and life in general for that matter, weren’t defined by chaos or screens, but by small, real curiosities?

That's the question we were asking ourselves after seeing @JonathanHaidt's latest w

Wealth

A woman saw Picasso at a café and asked him to draw her something.
He obliged, sketched on a napkin in 30 seconds.
 
“That’ll be a million francs”, he said.
She laughed. “But it only took you 30 seconds!”
“No,” Picasso replied. “It took me 40 years.”
 
He wasn’t charging for time.
He was charging for the years it took to know exactly what to do… and how to do it, fast.
That’s the cost of mastery.
And it’s also the cost of not having it.
 
We talk about the cost of ignorance tax a lot.
 
It’s the hidden cost you pay when you don’t know the straightest path.
When you chase shiny distractions, waste months on guesswork, or reinvent wheels that didn’t need reinventing.
We’ve paid that tax more times than we can count.
 
Often, yes, you need more time.
But you also need better direction.
Someone who’s already failed 50 times is showing you where not to step.
Someone is handing you a map when everyone else is still building a compass.
 
That’s how you build faster, evolve sharper, and pay less tax, in time, energy, and missteps. 
 
All this to say, don't shy away from investing in yourself, it's one of the few ways in this world we can buy time. 
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Journal prompt:

What am I holding on to that I need to let go of?

Health

Some of the recurring themes inside the Evolve Journal Club so far have been screen time and sleep.
 
It’s especially challenging this time of year, the days are shorter, there’s more inside in the evenings, and that well-earned bit of evening relaxation can easily slip into a doomscroll pit.
 
Before you know it, bedtime’s later than planned, and you’re waking up with that familiar sense of regret that you didn’t quite make the most of the day.
 
Rinse and repeat.
 
That’s why we’ve put together our Screens & Sleep Toolkit inside the Digital Vault of the Journal Club.
 
It’s your guide for setting digital boundaries, getting calmer nights, and starting your mornings brighter.
 
Here's a sample of one of the frameworks. 

THE 3 F DIGITAL BOUNDARY STACK

1. Filter – App blockers (Opal, Freedom, One‑Sec) auto‑shut social / email after 8 pm. We have instagram notifications switched off all together (sorry for the delays 🫣)

2. Fence – Physical limit: charge devices in hallway or kitchen. Use a £10 analogue alarm if needed.

3. Fill – Replace gap with high‑return evening habits: stretch, journal, fiction, partner chat.

Tip: Start with one “F” for 7 days, then stack the next.

Wealth

Check out an episode on Vicki Weinberg's podcast Bring Your Product Idea To Life went live. 
 
Expect to learn:
- The early mistakes we made bringing the Evolve Journal to market and what we’d do differently
- How regular customer feedback has been vital for us
- What it’s like to run a business with a family member and the importance of being aligned
and moooorrre.....

 
Listen here

Relationships

Want better relationships? Start with attention.
 
In a world full of distractions, your presence means a lot.
 
Looking up when they walk into the room.
Remembering they had that big meeting.
Calling when they aren't expecting it.

Listening without waiting for your turn to speak.
You don’t need to be the most charming person in the room.
You just need to be the one who notices.
 
The person who pays attention, wins connection.

Freedom

Journal prompt:
Am I making problems or solutions?

Wealth

Mulling over your regret is an easy way to become sad.
 
Think about how you can build an amazing life with action you take now. 

Relationships

I logged into Facebook for the first time in years, just trying to give away some furniture on Marketplace.
 
The first post that appeared caught my eye. 
 
A photo of a kid I hadn’t thought about in 20 years.
 
Back at school, he was undeniably different. Obsessed with dinosaurs in a way that couldn’t be ignored. Spend more than two minutes with him, and you’d know his favourite fossil and the Latin name for it too.
 
He didn’t care about being “cool.” And that came at a cost.
 
He was teased. Mocked. Bullied for being too into something no one else cared about.
 
And yet, here he was, bearded, confident, standing tall in the middle of a palaeontology dig site, celebrating a career milestone doing the exact thing he used to get bullied for.
 
The thing that got him excluded? It’s now the thing that sets him apart. To be clear, I don't know him, but I can imagine he takes a great sense of meaning and purpose from his work. 
 
This highlighted to me the danger of fitting in, you can end up burying the very part of you that would’ve set you free.
 
We spend so much time trying not to be weird. Not to stand out. But that same weirdness, the thing that made you feel different… is probably the thing you’re supposed to lean into.
 
If you dull your edges just to blend in, you risk becoming invisible. You then become unrecognisable, even to yourself.
 
What feels like punishment when you first have the courage to stand out and go a different way from the masses can become a superpower later, if you don’t let it get beaten out of you.
 
Does the world need more people who are palatable?
 
Or does it need more people who are real and unafraid to be themselves?
 
Stay strange. Stay sharp. The right people will find you. And when they do, they’ll love you for exactly who you are.

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"Somewhere in the future, your older self is watching you through memories. Whether it's with regret or nostalgia depends on what you do now." - Gurwinder Bhogal
 
Journal prompt:
What would future you want you to do today? What actions would you take?