Category: Personal

Making Jazz

The Truth Underneath

Before You Begin: This Is for You If… This isn’t just another model or philosophy. It’s not here to impress you or tell you how to live.It’s here to help you see—to see something you may already feel but haven’t been able to name. This is for you if: You won’t find judgment here. Just…
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Where Jazz Is Made

by Bryant Stratton It calls out to be heard,not with noise,but with knowing.The pulse beneath the surface,the whisper beneath the wind.A rhythm not yet played,but aching to be felt. The possibility to change lives,not in grand speeches,but in sacred, simple steps.In the quiet moment of offering,in the hand extended without need,in the decision to give,even…
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How Do Hyper-Intelligent People Fit In?

by Bryant Stratton Have you ever felt like your mind was moving faster than the world around you? Like your thoughts were streaming in high-definition, but the world was stuck in standard definition, and no one had the bandwidth to hear you clearly? If so, I see you. Because I’ve been there too. For those…
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There Is No Choice

by Bryant Stratton Legacy isn’t a concept. It’s a current.A force we’re either resisting or flowing with.And the truth is, most of us spend too much time pretending we have a choice. We don’t. Legacy isn’t about inheritance or image. It’s not the house you pass down or the business you leave behind. It’s the…
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Rooted: The Reinvention of Bryant Stratton

Chapter 1: Life Without Roots Bryant grew up feeling something was fundamentally missing, a sensation difficult to articulate but powerful enough to shape his earliest memories. His family had defied tremendous odds, clawing their way out of poverty and into a life of material comfort, but Bryant quickly learned that wealth alone couldn’t provide the…
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The Three Who Faced the Dragon

In a company teetering on the edge of chaos, three men stood at the center of a storm. There was the Adam, a man with vision but no structure, whose company swayed unpredictably between bursts of brilliance and the weight of disorder. There was Steve, a loyal right-hand man, comfortable in the mess, who thrived…
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A Journey To Accept Entrance Into Life

The Walled Garden and the Man on the Wall Once, there stood a walled garden, a place of unmatched beauty. Its towering stone walls, covered in ivy, shielded the paradise within, a world of endless flowers, winding stone pathways, and a central fountain that shimmered like liquid gold under the sun. This garden was not…
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The Psychology of Obedience and Radicalization: Alan Watts, Milgram, and Mao’s Playbook

How People Buy Into Their Own Games Alan Watts often explored how people become trapped in the games they create for themselves. Whether it’s an ideology, a belief system, or a personal narrative, people get so wrapped up in their own constructed realities that they seem incomprehensible to outsiders. The deeper they go, the more…
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The Nothing

In the beginning, there was a place where nothing could be found. It was neither empty nor full, for there was no measure of either. There was no shape, no purpose, no reason for its being. Nothing had been made, and nothing was to come. There was no need to name it, for nothing had…
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The Boy

There was once a boy who lived in the shadow of another. His older brother, a figure of brilliance and charm, was everything the boy was not. From the day he could remember, the boy had been taught the difference between success and failure, between being something and being nothing. And in the eyes of…
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