Positively Powerful
A newsletter about becoming your most interesting, happy, and powerful self
Welcome to the birth of Positively Powerful, a weekly newsletter about personal leadership, business, internet culture, and the journey of becoming your most interesting, happy, and powerful self.
Looking back a few years, do you also feel the world is becoming… harder? With sharper edges? Rhetoric is harsher. Is compassion out of fashion?
I’ve always been empathic, but I didn’t understand the mechanics of empathy until later in life. Why do I fall in love when I watch romantic comedies? Why do I cry at each episode of Bluey? Why do I notice the slightest difference in behavior in the people around me?
Many years ago, a therapist described me as an octopus with tentacles reaching out in every direction. Connected to everything around me and feeling the minuscule differences happening. The difficult part was learning how to cut the tentacles that hurt me.
They say failure is the greatest teacher. If that is true, I guess I am wise.
Building companies, traveling the world, and winning competitions and awards might have looked like success from the outside, but I have never felt successful. On my own measuring stick, I am a failure.
Except as a dad. I am a good father.
My name is Mattis. I’m a creative, an engineer, and a founder. I am a systems thinker and a dreamer. I am a builder of teams. I am a lifelong student of personal development, leadership, and human nature.
In this newsletter, I want to channel my experience, everything I have learned through life, what I am learning today, and all my shame and sorrow for not living up to my own expectations. I have never stopped learning, and I never will. I hope to pass on the best to you.
I want to give you insights, tools, frameworks, and support. Give you direction on how to get ahead in life. How to manage the expectations of people around you. How to break out from the monotone and get into the zone. How to start loving yourself.
Maybe I can help you avoid some of the pain I myself have gone through.
What does it mean to be Positively Powerful?
I hope to explore that together, you and I. Our empathy is a superpower, and I think we can channel it to do fantastic things. Especially if the world is going to shit around us.
If you're excited about exploring how we can become our most powerful selves, it would mean a lot if you subscribed to this newsletter.