Personal Development Platform

Reimagining Personal Growth

Something we’re passionate about at Human-Centric Engineering is personal development and growth.

Something we’re very aware of is how people - including us - tend to struggle with turning interest into action.

Over several years John has developed a cyclical approach to building and evolving habits, while keeping things fresh by consistently adding new experiments. His approach follows the natural cyclical patterns of solstices and equinoxes, providing periods of focus, periods of reflection, and frequent opportunities to reset and restart.

It’s an approach that helps to remove both the sense of pressure to succeed in everything and the sense of shame in letting something lapse. It’s an approach based on experimentation, allowing habits that work for you to form and letting go of those that don’t without guilt or shame.

It’s a fascinating balance of consistency and variety, which speaks to what it is to be human.

The Ordinary Mastery Platform

The Ordinary Mastery platform provides the structure to help people identity the pursuits and practices they wish to focus on for a given period.

Key features:

• Built-in seasonal cadence
• Choose pursuits and practices specific to you
• Seasonal progress and experimentation trackers
• Curate your own set of resources and references to help your journey
• Online community to share struggles and successes
• Regular events and courses available

As everybody is following the same schedule, it brings a sense of connection and community. Everybody focuses at the same time. Everybody reflects at the same time. Everybody resets at the same time. And it’s all done with an open mind, and open heart; a sense of exploration and experimentation.

Current Status

Ordinary Mastery is currently in development with pilot users providing feedback. Expected beta launch in Q1 2026.