Tell the Truth and Run - Jim Stalker

No advice. No paywall. Just writing that zeros in on what matters.

About Jim Stalker’s Substack: “Tell the Truth and Run”

I’m a writer and fitness instructor. Over 5,000 classes taught. Thirty plus years in corporate sales which taught me plenty about running and truth-telling.

The name “Tell the Truth and Run” comes from experience: speaking truth often makes people uncomfortable, including yourself. That discomfort is where growth happens.

I write about the philosophical questions most people avoid because they are hard, and in nearly all cases, are perennial. And, the answers I found and continue to explore don’t “all work together for the good!” Life is messy, complicated, full of seeming contradictions and hard to clearly articulate.

Yet, here we are, meaning makers foisted into a universe making no effort to provide any. So seeking coherence, we kid ourselves about wanting to matter when we just want to be comfortable and thinking out of convenience they are interchangeable.

All part of this human condition where the constant interior inner monologue that might be the very thing that brings us all together, is ignored while the barrage of manipulation takes over.

All those discussions involve integration with my favorite passions, culture, fitness, and mindfulness.

I’m committed to no clickbait. No guru energy. No BS.

All posts are free because good ideas should be accessible to everyone.

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One week Wittgenstein, the next Vince Gilligan. Always some Steely Dan.