Pierre-Boris K.

COO by day. Guide by night.
Build the capacity to face anything. Your presence is the ultimate anchor.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

I survived bankruptcy, death threats, burnout, and depression.

I learned valuable lessons from yogis, shamans, and Shaolin monks.

Here are the 44 secrets about life mastery few people will understand:

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

· Fear of a project you want — you can feel that from the outside. You walk toward it. The obstacle is the way.

· Ego identification is different. You can't see it from the outside. You're inside it. The story feels like reality. The reaction feels like a principle.

· That's why courage isn't enough. You can't walk toward an obstacle you can't see. The work isn't bravery. It's awareness.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

Most people think "the obstacle is the way" applies to everything.

I believed that too. Then someone said something true in front of my team and I felt it — chest first, jaw next, half a second before any thought. By the time I was aware of deciding, the decision was already made. I shut him out and called it a boundary.

Fear you can see. Ego you become.
Those are not the same obstacle.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

There's a half-second between what someone says and what you do next.

Notice it. The tightening. Chest, jaw, something closing.

That's the moment. Not a danger signal. The ego registering a threat to a story it needs to keep intact.

Practice: name it before you respond. Not out loud — internally. Something just tightened. That's it. Two words. That's enough to create a sliver of distance between the sensation and the decision.

Distance is where choice lives.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

Common advice: develop resilience. Learn to take feedback without reacting.

The real move: notice what happens in the body in the half-second before you respond. That's where the actual decision is made — not in your values, not in your principles. In the tightening.

A client realized he hadn't become better at receiving feedback. He'd just gotten faster at constructing reasons why it didn't apply to him.

The gap between the tightening and the story — that's the only place change is possible.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

@dpatrickaldrin Very true.

Always dealing with some hustling shadow energy at times 😉

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

@dpatrickaldrin That’s the job of a ninja 🙃

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

The ego doesn't need to be loud to win.
It just needs to be faster than your awareness.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

@dpatrickaldrin Insightful ! Thanks.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

"The obstacle is the way."
Only if you're not fused with the person the obstacle is threatening.
That's the part no one puts on the poster.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

I used to think I reacted because I lacked the right tools.
Then I understood: I had plenty of tools.
What I lacked was distance from the version of myself
that couldn't afford to be wrong.
That's a different problem entirely.
And a different kind of work.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

You can't use the obstacle as a path
if you're standing inside the person it's threatening.
The work isn't learning to face obstacles.
It's learning to stop being the one who needs to defeat them.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

@dpatrickaldrin It may seem simplistic to divide mankind in two. But we all do.
And this one is quite useful.
I believe this is also contextual.
I can catch myself thinking with a fixed mindset sometimes.

[Patrick Aldrin @dpatrickaldrin]

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck (79 years old) revealed 7 "fixed mindset" traps that quietly sabotage high achievers...

And the more successful you are, the deeper they cut.

Most people do all 7. Daily.

Here's what's stalling you 🧵

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

@dpatrickaldrin it's frenglish :-)

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

There are two ways to move.
Pilotage — moving to avoid errors.
Action — moving to be in the movement.
One comes from fear. The other from ground.
You know which one you have been using.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

Most leaders mistake a discipline problem for an alignment problem.
They buy another framework instead of addressing the root.
I break down the physical shift from survival to authority every week.
Link in bio.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

Overthinking is not analysis.
It is defense.
Your survival code builds complexity to keep you safe from the truth.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

The gap between who you perform at 9am and who you are at 3am has a cost.
I wrote about what lives in that gap — and how to close it.
Join here: https://t.co/Ex736X6cQ8

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

Unborrowed authority is not a title.
It is not a strategy.
It is not a sabbatical.
It is what remains when you stop performing and tell the truth.

[Pierre-Boris K. @ThePierreBorisK]

The way I make it work for me — because the more I force it the more my mind works against it: for example, I don’t want to go out for my barefoot morning practice in the cold. So I take off the pajamas, get dressed for exercise, while telling my mind that I can come back inside if it’s too cold (sometimes cold is an excuse my mind uses as resistance to friction). When I am out, it’s much easier to stay there and do it.
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