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Empathy By Design – The Power Of Human Connection
If you could stand in someone else’s shoes… Hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently? These words end an incredibly beautiful video below produced by the Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. What if you…
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Slow, Smooth, Fast
When I first started training for a marathon, I thought I could accelerate my development just by working harder. I believed the harder I pushed, the more training I take would get me there faster. But this approach led to frustration, burnout, injuries, and a break from the training. Until one day I stumbled upon…
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The Power of Psycho-logic – Great Ideas that Don’t Make Sense
In today’s business world, we are obsessed with big data, economic and financial models, everything is data-driven or model-driven, and every decision is made based on logical, analytical and rational thinking. But the problem is we live on a planet of 7.75 billion human beings whose thinking and behaviors are often driven by emotions and…
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From Stone Age to Digital Age, Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins
One hundred billion people have walked this planet. Nearly eight billion of them are alive today. Each has a unique story to tell. No matter what generation and technology are, from the days of the Stone Age all the way to the Digital Age and everything in between, storytelling is crucial for survival as well…
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Lessons Learned From The World’s Toughest Man
I have read many books on a wide range of subjects but if you ask to pick one that stands out from the rest, it will definitely be Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, written by David Goggins. I had probably re-read and re-listened to this book/audiobook more than a dozen…
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Train Your Mind, Change Your Brian, Change Your Life, Change Your Reality
What we think and feel, for better or worse, has a profound effect on our lives. Our thoughts and emotions have consequences so great that they literally create our realities in the real world. Connecting the dots between the outer, physical world of matter and the inner, mental world of thought has always presented quite…
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The World’s Deadliest Pilgrimage: 1,000-day Marathon To Enlightenment
In 2015, James Lawrence completed an astonishing feat in endurance sports. Lawrence, who is also known as the Iron Cowboy, completed what he called the “50-50-50 Project”: 50 triathlons, in 50 different US states, in 50 days. Each day, he swam 3.86 km, biked 180.25 km and ran 42.2km; that was 226.31 km or 141 miles…
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How To Go Against The Crowd And Beat The Crowd
Perhaps nobody made more money by betting against the crowd during the pandemic than Bill Ackman. The Wall Street Journal reported recently, that the legendary hedge fund manager and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management made two complex debt investments—one presaging the economy’s swift shutdown and the other it’s fevered reopening— Ackman made nearly $4…
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What Can We Learn From The World’s Greatest Freedivers
How long can you hold a breath? The average adult can manage 30 seconds. Can you reach one minute? Perhaps two? Can you fathom reaching nine minutes, two seconds? Natalia Molchanova achieved that time, the women’s world record in static apnea—holding her breath while motionless in a pool—in 2013. Molchanova, considered by many to be…
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Build Your Character, Not Your Reputation
HK$30,000,000,000. That’s a three with ten zeros behind it. This was how much it was worth for the biggest project I had ever worked on. Not only was the amount of money staggering, but I also got the opportunity to work with some of the best minds from around the globe. Our consortium consisted of…
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How To Create Remarkable Moments To Make The Most Of Your Life
At the beginning of his memoir Chasing Daylight, Eugene O’Kelly wrote an extraordinary statement: “I was blessed. I was told I had three months to live.” What would you do if you had only three months to live? It’s often through contemplating death that we come to realize what is–and isn’t–important in life, and how…
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How To Think For Yourself – The Art Of Independent & Critical Thinking
Like most people, I was cooped up at home during the outbreak of COVID-19 last year. I spent most of my time reading: books, news, articles, blogs, and social media posts. I had probably downloaded more than 50 books on my Kindle and read most of them. But I had a strange realization when I…
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Stop Moving Fast & Breaking Things, Start Mastering Patience & Persistence
Many of today’s entrepreneurs and startups live by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s now-famous motto: “Move fast and break things.” Zuckerberg intended for this to inform internal design and management processes, but it aptly captures how entrepreneurs regard disruption: fast is always better. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not…
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Paradoxical Leadership – Where Optimism Meets Pragmatism Creates Resilience
On September 9, 1965, while returning from a mission in North Vietnam, the US Navy pilot Captain James Stockdale’s A-4 Skyhawk was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Stockdale ejected, breaking a bone in his back and badly dislocating his knee which subsequently went untreated and eventually left him with a fused knee joint and a very…
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Bet On Things That Never Change In A World That Never Stop Changing
Things that never change in a world that never stops changing are the most important things to pay attention to. Change gets most of the attention because it’s exciting and surprising. But things that stay the same – how people behave, how they think, how they’re persuaded – are the real meat of history. People…
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Death Is Our Best Teacher. Fear Is Our Best Friend
Have you ever asked yourself why you are afraid of death? It’s normal to be afraid, of course. But exploring why we are afraid of death might be instructive on how we are to live. Do you have unfinished businesses to accomplish, ambitions that aren’t fulfilled? Are there too many dreams not pursued, loves that…
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How Bad Do You Want It? How To Master Mind Over Body
According to the coach and author Matt Fitzgerald’s best-seller: “How Bad Do You Want It?”, wanting it more than anybody else means you’re willing to suffer more than anybody else, whether it’s physically, mentally, or psychologically, or all of them. Your will to succeed must be stronger than your mounting desire to end the…
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Control Your Attention To Control The Quality Of Your Life And Work
In these days of instant gratification and endless technological distractions literally at our fingertips, we are increasingly denying ourselves the ability to think and work consistently and deeply at whatever we choose to undertake. Today, you just have a few seconds to grab people’s attention. Books, blogs, videos, emails, presentations, it doesn’t matter – if…
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Power of 1% – How 1% Better Every Day Leads to Extraordinary Growth
A famous Chinese proverb says: “A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step”. If your journey is same as mine, which is run a full marathon, it would be 42 kilometers long. On average, there are 1265-1515 steps in a kilometer (average step length is 0.79 m for men and 0.66m for women),…
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Most Important Lessons In Life Are The Most Counterintuitive
A near-death experience taught me one of the most important lessons in life. I was afraid of water when I was a kid, I didn’t start to learn swimming until I was around 14. Back then I just was just kind of playing and practicing in small training swimming pool with my friends. I felt…
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How to Beat The Fear of Rejection
When you order coffee at Starbucks, did you ever try to ask, “Can I get a 20% discount?” Or did you ever try to walk up to a stranger and say “Hi, today’s birthday, can I take a selfie with you to celebrate my birthday?” Or “I just lost my wallet, can I borrow you…
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How to Win Arguments And Influence People
Harish Natarajan loves arguing. It has helped him win debates against his parents at dinner table conversations when he was young. It has helped him scale heights in debating circles — he holds the world record for most debate victories. He has participated in more than 2,000 debates and is among the world’s best. And…
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