The Temporary Theory

What if temporary doesn't diminish meaning?

What if it creates it?

Out of everything impermanence could teach you, what does it actually mean?

We spend most of our lives trying to make things last, certain that permanence is what gives life meaning. Hold on tighter. Keep it the same. Protect it from change.

But look closer at your own life, and a different pattern shows up. The moments that actually shaped you weren't the ones that lasted. They were the ones that changed you, then passed.

That's what temporary does. It's the thing that creates meaning in the first place.

The Temporary Theory started as a question: why do some experiences stay with us long after they've passed, while others shape us in ways we never expected?

It became a way of understanding how change actually moves through life.

This is not about who you are as a person. It’s about understanding what shapes us, why, and how we move through change.

Because what we observe and experience throughout our lives about how to move through change becomes ours to own.

Where you are in any situation in your life is temporary. It will change in some way. And that is the most useful truth I have come to learn.

What we notice shapes our choices. Our choices shape patterns. And those patterns become part of what we leave behind.

SWAAT takes the philosophy inward, helping us understand where we are, what may be shaping us and what we might choose to do next.

The leadership work takes those same ideas into the workplace, exploring how awareness and choice and the patterns we create shape the way we lead and the people around us.

Different applications. Same philosophy at the centre:

THE BOOK

It's Temporary
Or is it?
A Philosophy for Life

The honest account of how these ideas emerged from lived experience.

Coming 2026.