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September 24 - November 13, 2022
Our education system is geared towards skilling people for precisely the kind of work that is most likely to be automated.
Very few of us intentionally cultivate our intangible assets with the kind of focus we give to our tangible, financial assets. That is a big mistake.
‘what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.
Triumph
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Many people in such roles are risk-averse bureaucrats whose core strength is organizational politics.
Since leadership is a behaviour rather than a position, anyone can be a leader!
leaders are made, not born.
While some people are born with leadership traits, the vast majority of leaders are primarily made by life experiences, or...
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is when you have to deal with a challenge or environment that is completely outside your ...
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No one is a ‘leader’ all the time.
enormously effective wartime leader but a miserable failure as a leader of post-war
Leadership styles vary enormously, and leadership effectiveness should never be confused with charisma.
leadership is a mindset and an act, not a title or position. Leaders come in a staggeringly diverse set of personalities and styles, most crucially, anyone can be a leader.
must be the change that you wish to see in the world.’
‘We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.’
So, if you are going to persuade others to join you in your mission, you have to have a knack for sense-making and story-telling.
‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
herpetologist
The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. I also get The Indian Express, The Ken, The Hindu and Business Standard.
fake news and fake narratives are both far older and far more fundamental than most of us realize.
Money is like salt, essential to life but having too much or too little leads to problems.
minimalism.
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Watch a YouTube or Netflix video of Marie Kondo and see if you can radically declutter your possessions.
‘Designing Your Life’.
There is also a world of difference between being successful, being seen as successful and feeling successful. These are three quite different things.
They are not thinking about me because they are busy thinking about what others think about them.
between an ordinary person and a great person is just concentration. The quality of your life depends on your concentration and
My mind is rarely in the present and prefers to dwell on the past with regret or on the future with anxiety.
‘The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.’
Life is under no obligation to give you what you expect,’
