Oct 27, 2025
Having Curiosity Over Conviction
Growth starts with having more curiosity than conviction!
Check out my candid and wide ranging conversation with Pay Your Dues host, Greg Inglin, on what the research says about happiness, living a purpose-centered life and finding your “flow”!
🎙️ Listen to full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gccdMAgG
-Craig
Oct 27, 2025
Happiness trap #1: Believing in the “IRR of happiness”
I coined this term some time ago. In finance, we can make almost any investment make sense as long as we believe a mythical story about the future value at the end of our hold period. Whether it’s your exit cap rate, exit multiple or some other “Big Bang” event, we have to be careful when so much of the return is based on some far out, speculative or hyped up event. Especially if you are enduring a lot of negative cash flow in the interim.
The same is true for our happiness! I discuss this concept on the Pay Your Dues podcast and in my book, The Happiness Reboot!
-Craig
Oct 16, 2025
Beyond the resume and the professional façade, there's a story waiting to be told. I had the privilege of sitting down with VoyageATL to peel back the layers and share the authentic journey that shaped my path and my upcoming book, The Happiness Reboot - The Path To Reclaiming Your Joy.
It's my hope that these insights resonate, offering a spark of connection and inspiration for anyone navigating their own unique story and path to happiness.
Read the piece here: https://voyageatl.com/interview/check-out-craig-robinsons-story
-Craig
Oct 5, 2025
Thanks again for signing up to receive updates on my book (scheduled for release early next year) and other published writings. This week, I published an opinion piece in The Fulcrum on the concerning state of our country. While I often write about topics concerning happiness and fulfillment, authentic leadership, and even innovation. I also feel compelled to write about society, values, principled leadership and the public good. This week I chose to write about the latter.
As democracy erodes around us, Americans today are like boiling frogs. We may be sitting in a pot of our own making — and the water’s getting dangerously hot. However, we can still jump, and the time to do so is now. I hope this OpEd inspires you to defend institutions, to refuse to obey in advance, to believe in truth, and to stop treating each new degree of heat as normal.
Read the piece here: https://thefulcrum.us/americas-boiling-frog-democracy
-Craig
July 28, 2025
This week, I'm sharing an opinion piece I wrote for Fast Company. While I've written and contributed to a number of articles on the role of business and society, principled leadership, and our democracy (like this CNN article), this week's op-ed addresses another topic I'm passionate about (and the focus of my book): happiness.
Many of us are, at best, perplexed, but more often stressed and depressed, about the state of our U.S. democracy. In this article, my co-author, friend and colleague, Daniella Ballou-Aares, (founder and CEO of The Leadership Now Project ), and I offer practical insights and thoughts on finding peace in the storm.
We unpack this and many other aspects of how we can preserve and promote not only our democracy but also our joy, peace, and happiness.
-Craig
July 29, 2021
This week, I delve into the role of business in society, particularly concerning its advocacy for a strong and fair democracy. While businesses have historically lobbied for their own interests (e.g., favorable regulations, lower taxes), they are now being asked to consider not only the value they create for shareholders but also for their stakeholders—employees, customers, and the communities they call home.
In an opinion piece I co-wrote with my colleague, Eddie Shaw, for CNN, I argue that principled business leaders can take specific actions to help protect voting rights currently under threat across the country and in my home state of Georgia.Read the full article here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/perspectives/voting-rights-business-leaders
-Craig
Curiosity Over Conviction
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