The
Reluctant
Leader

Meet the Purposebility Collective

Voices That Inspire, Challenge, and Lead with Purpose

The Hidden Cost of “Having It All”

10.10 means different things to the world: wealth, success, fame. But for me, it revealed something deeper: I don’t belong to myself. My home, my work, my family, all entrusted, not owned. True fullness isn’t having more. It’s giving more, until ownership turns into worship and life becomes whole.

The Paradox of Design Thinking

When design forgets empathy, systems become cages. When empathy forgets design, chaos returns. The paradox of leadership is learning to hold both, to bring order without losing love. The best designs are not those that prevent mistakes, but those that make compassion inevitable.

Dog-Eat-Dog

In a dog-eat-dog world, leadership isn’t about fighting harder; it’s about protecting wiser. True strength absorbs chaos without becoming it, turns conflict into clarity, and power into protection. The strongest leaders guard the pack, not their pride, transforming every bite into bread and every wound into wisdom.

Is Comparison a Good Compass?

Suffering often begins the moment we start measuring. Comparison can poison or purify, depending on which way we turn the lens. The real question isn’t “Am I ahead?” but “Is my compass still true?” Gratitude doesn’t slow growth. It gives it direction.

The Thin Line Between Principle and Pragmatism

Leadership is not about choosing between principle and pragmatism. It is about walking the narrow space where both meet. When convenience tempts, conviction steadies. When control demands, surrender strengthens. In the end, principles may cost you comfort, but they build the kind of trust that outlasts every shortcut.

花好月圆阖家团圆

今夜中秋，月白风清。我带着孩子漫步月下，一句一句教他们中文。语言如月光，温柔照亮回家的路。教他们学中文，也是教我做父亲：不求完美，只求耐心；不为他们学会，而为他们喜欢。

Authors

Daniel Loh

Samuel Kang

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The Paradox of Hopeless Empathy

Sometimes God lets you waste what you once valued so you can rediscover what truly matters. Sitting in the car with the engine running, I realised the paradox of hopeless empathy, that only by losing hope did I learn to feel again. And in feeling again, I found purpose.

1000 Years

Love isn’t proven by how long it lasts, but by how many times it chooses to begin again. I once thought forever was a feeling. Now I know it’s a practice. One act of surrender. One step closer. One quiet death to self. That’s how a thousand years truly begin.

Hidden Cost. Hidden Opportunity

We think what’s free costs nothing. But everything has a price, either paid by you or by someone before you. The hidden cost teaches awareness. The hidden opportunity teaches gratitude. The wise don’t avoid cost. They redeem it, turning expense into investment and transaction into transformation.

Be Yourself, But Which Self?

“Be yourself,” they say. But which self? Freedom isn’t indulgence; it’s discipline. Authenticity without accountability is adolescence. The world tells you to express who you are. Legacy demands you become who you’re meant to be, the self that floats against its nature and teaches others how to rise.

Rest Is Your Fastest Move

Rest is not the opposite of progress; it is the precondition for it. Productivity begins when you delegate downwards to empower others and upwards to elevate yourself into higher work. Stillness is clarity. Clarity is speed. The leader who dares to rest often moves fastest.

The Compound Interest of Small Choices

Compound interest multiplies whatever you feed it, money, time, or emotion. Freedom without rhythm becomes noise; rhythm turns freedom into music. Guard your heart, for small choices compound quietly. The opposite of freedom is not control. It is addiction.