Michael Hewitt. The purpose of life is to know thyself. That’s the “main quest.”

I’ve been on professional stages since I was 12 years old. I left the stage world during the pandemic when I realized I’d hit all of the goals I’d set for myself, and the shutdown was the excuse my ego could accept for me to leave.

My primary focus now is on building my practice and serving my clients, but I still train and perform regularly. Let’s be real: If nothing else, I love singing and am obsessed with the voice.

Here’s some singing that I’m pleased with from various points in my career:

• Beethoven 9Ode to Joy
• If Ever I Would Leave YouCamelot
• Mache dich, mein Herze, reinBach, St. Matthew Passion
• Move OnSunday in the Park with George
• ToscaAngelotti excerpts

My primary creative project has been and continues to be myself, becoming the man I admire and offering him to the world. Anything else I create is downstream of that aim.

In 2015, I interviewed one of my professors who had recently co-authored a book on creativity. This interview changed my perspective on creativity forever, exposing me to the idea that creativity was anything that’s within you that you bring forth.

• Breaking the Chains of MonotoneMonotone isn’t what you think it is. And it’s totally fixable.
• How To Be PresentPresence is the prerequisite to service.
• The Sound of LeadershipPodcast

My mission is to help people reclaim the agency they’ve lost, so they can go do what they were built for.

I want to live a life of simplicity and discipline.

What holds up a house? Pillars.

Hewitt-isms

• Unlearn what’s unnatural.
• Stay connected to what’s possible.
• Clarity cuts through confusion and creates courage.
• Be anything but average.
• Risk rejection.
• Excellence is fun.
• Elegance requires effort.

Books, experiences, and resources I’ve found useful and inspiring

Books

• A Course in Miracles: Manual for Teachers
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Shōgun by James Clavell
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
• Red Rising series by Pierce Brown
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
• The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Lessons in Leadership by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
• Torah Studies by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, adapted by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
• The Gospel of John
• Power vs. Force, The Eye of the I, and I: Reality and Subjectivity by David R. Hawkins
• Wanting by Luke Burgis
• The Surrender Experiment and The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Duties of the Heart: Gate of Trust by Bahya ibn Paquda
• The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung

Experiences, some of them “side quests”

• Clown training with Chris Bayes
• S. N. Goenka Vipassana retreat
• EMDR
• Therapeutic psychedelics