About

Mostly this is me thinking out loud, in public.

Mike sitting on stone steps inside a dark cave, wearing a conical straw hat

I'm Mike. I make videos and write about travel, mindset, philosophy, freedom, personal experiences, and the ideas I'm still exploring.

Mike's Mindsets isn't built around a method or a niche. It's a place to put the things I find worth thinking about carefully — sometimes as a video, sometimes as writing, sometimes as a book.

I'd rather ask a question honestly than answer it confidently before I've earned it. So expect changed minds, unfinished thoughts, and subjects that shift over time as my curiosity does.

Mike looking out of the window of a yellow van with flowers on the roof rack
Mike in a helmet riding a mud-covered ATV across a grassy field

What I keep returning to

Travel and experiences

Being somewhere unfamiliar changes what you notice. A lot of what I make starts there.

Mindset

How we think, what we assume by default, and what changes when those assumptions are questioned.

Philosophy and ideas

Ideas I'm exploring rather than conclusions I've reached — held loosely, revisited often.

Freedom

What it means, what it costs, and how easily it gets confused with something else.

Mike climbing a rope net obstacle during a muddy race

Where this is going

Mike's Mindsets is where all of it will live: the videos, the writing, and the books — including A Different Life and The Illusion of Freedom, which is still in progress.