Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi MD PhD

People ask if I miss public health. The scale and impact of it. I used to want to save the world through grand transformation. Then I realised that without collective leadership, including self-leadership, it wouldn't work. No one was coming to save the day. So how do we know where to make a difference? READ ON OR USE THE FILLABLE VERSION TO REFLECT AS YOU READ HERE. Heroes don't scale (something I discuss in The Success Trap). The easy but bottomless and paralysing question:

It’s a long one this week… The word sociopath isn’t really used anymore - the clinical label is ‘antisocial personality disorder’ (ASPD). And recently I started wondering if I was developing some ‘sociopathic/ASPD’ traits: lack of guilt, empathy, or remorse. Whether it’s navigating illness or a season of deep change, identity level shifts occur that the mind tries to make sense of. Here’s how Long Covid contributed to feeling a sense of cool detachment that felt ‘sociopathic

Travelling to India and moving to an ashram is one of the most enduring fantasies available to a weary Western mind. It was strong in the 60s and it’s still alive now, with variations on the theme. The pull of transcending the world and finding eternal bliss tugs on our spiritual imagination. This dilemma can also mask itself as chronic self-doubt: perhaps there’s greener grass somewhere else, or perhaps I’m simply not adequate enough to reach it. But often what we’re seeking