Unleash The Power Of Impossible
When I opened Walter Isaacson’s new book, “Elon Musk,” these two quotes caught my eye and struck a chord in my heart. “To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a…
Nobody Cares. Work Harder!
You got a promotion at work?Nobody cares. Work harder! You got fired at work?Nobody cares. Worker harder! You lost 50 pounds?Nobody cares. Work harder! You gained 50 pounds?Nobody cares. Work harder! You couldn’t finish the marathon?Nobody cares. Work harder! You won the marathon?Nobody cares. Work harder! You got married?Nobody cares. Work harder! You got divorced?Nobody…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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