Lachlan Brown is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, a digital publishing network reaching tens of millions of readers monthly. He holds a Graduate Diploma of Psychological Studies from Deakin University, though his real education came afterward: a warehouse job shifting TVs, a stretch of anxiety in his mid-twenties, and the slow discovery that studying the mind is not the same as learning how to live well. He started experimenting with Buddhist principles during breaks at the warehouse and eventually began writing about what he was learning. That writing became Hack Spirit, a widely read personal development site, and his book Hidden Secrets of Buddhism became a bestseller. His work breaks down complex ideas into frameworks people can apply immediately, whether they are navigating a career change, a difficult relationship, or the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Lachlan splits his time between Singapore and Saigon. He writes about high-performance routines, decision-making under pressure, digital innovation, and the intersection of Eastern philosophy with modern life. His perspective comes from having built things from scratch, failed at some of them, and learned that clarity comes from practice, not theory.
Loyalty is one of the most admired traits in any relationship. We praise it. We seek it. We often say we want it above almost everything else. But there’s a quiet problem hiding beneath that ideal. Not everything that looks like loyalty is healthy. In fact, some behaviors that are commonly framed ...Read More
With conflict, most of us think the goal is to “win.” Say the perfect comeback. Prove our point. Make the other person realize we were right all along. But the people who are genuinely good at conflict resolution? They take a completely different approach. They’re not playing to win. They’re playing to understand. And because ...Read More
You know that weird, quiet feeling in your stomach when something’s off but you can’t explain why? Maybe you’re about to say yes to a job, move in with someone, or hit “send” on a message and something in you just goes, "Nah." Most of us have been taught to ...Read More
Most people think small talk is superficial. And it can be—if you approach it like a transaction, or a script you’re supposed to get through before the “real” conversation begins. But small talk, when done intentionally, isn’t small at all. It’s the art of making another person feel ...Read More
Most people assume that forgetting someone’s name is a sign of rudeness, carelessness, or poor memory. But psychology paints a very different picture. In fact, people who regularly blank on names—often within seconds of hearing them—tend to share a set of surprising psychological traits that say far more ...Read More
Most of us don’t realise how much of our unhappiness comes from caring too much. We care about what people think, what they might be saying behind our backs, what our next step “should” be, and whether we’re falling behind some invisible timeline. The more we care about ...Read More