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There are 18 posts tagged progress (this is page 1 of 1).

You can’t read the label from inside the bottle.

It is easy to give advice to someone else. But it is extremely difficult to see the situation clearly when it comes to ourselves. This is because we are ‘inside the bottle’. We need to step out and see the bottle in full. Try playing ‘consultant’ to yourself. You will realise you had the “what […]

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Power = Speed of thought to Action

Procrastination is the unhappy place where brilliance goes to die. The world is full of great ideas that never saw the light of day. So how can we stop this self-sabotage and make things happen? It is a long process but I want to give you a new way of looking at ‘just doing it’ […]

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The 40% rule

Ex US Navy Seal David Goggins (also known as the ‘Toughest man alive’) has a penchant for pushing himself beyond human limits every single day. His most famous story is about how he ran his first ultramarathon (100 miles) with broken bones in his foot and a kidney failure. You can read more about his […]

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From Worrier to Warrior

Go from being a worrier to being a Warrior. A worrier is paralysed by fear of the unknown. A Warrior knows that the unknown is exciting, and proactively seeks it. A worrier thinks too much about the future, and is paralysed by inaction and indecision. A Warrior in the battlefield thinks only about the here […]

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This too shall pass

The ‘pursuit’ of happiness is thus named because you keep pursuing it, never attaining it. Happiness (or unhappiness) is transient, it is an emotion caused by an external stimulus. Something makes you happy means some other thing makes you unhappy. Seek stillness of mind, not happiness. Seek calmness as your default state. Seek to be […]

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

Sachin’s straight drive, AR Rahman’s composition, Feynman’s teaching, Tommy Emmanuel’s strumming, Usain Bolt’s sprinting. There’s something in their performance that always seems so simple, so effortless, so naturally poetic. There’s a simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity. That comes after you has struggled and summitted a craft. The zen that you get […]

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Professionals ship. Amateurs make excuses. 

The tools don’t matter. Start creating. I spent almost a decade waiting to get everything perfect before I started putting stuff out. I had thought of creating videos, but I never seemed to have the right camera, the right lenses, the right lights. When I was producing music, I never seemed to have the right […]

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The Law of Forced Efficiency

“There’s never enough time to do everything, but there’s always enough time to do the most important thing.” What’s your most important thing for today? What’s the one thing that you will absolutely, positively accomplish today that will significantly move your work and life forward?

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The Centipede’s Dilemma

“The Centipede’s Dilemma” A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg moves after which?” This raised her doubts to such a pitch, She fell exhausted in the ditch Not knowing how to run. —- Flow is found post rational thinking. “Darr ke aage jeet hai” they say. “Doubt […]

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How to build high-performance teams?

Learn from David Beckham and Real Madrid. 👉  A reporter once asked David Beckham if there were any language problems in Real Madrid, since the players were from about eight different countries. He said it was never an issue, because everyone was so good, they never had to talk. They all just did the right […]

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Get curious

🔥 Don’t get furious. Get curious. Curiosity fuels imagination. Imagination fuels solutions. Children are always curious, imaginative and solution oriented. For them, the world is a puzzle. They encounter new pieces of the puzzle (or even entirely new puzzles) every day. Someone’s behaviour making you steam from your ears? Stop to think about the ‘why’ […]

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Trust the soup

Trust the soup. What to do when you are in a creative endeavour and are doubting yourself? When you hit a wall and you think, “I can’t do this”, or “This will never work”, or “this idea is just not good enough”. Trust the soup. From Steven Pressfield’s ‘Do the work’: 👉  When we say […]

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Beginner’s mindset

Be a beginner. Be unafraid. A beginner has everything to learn and nothing to lose. “I don’t know anything in this topic anyways, and the only way is up!”, they think. An expert has nothing to learn and everything to lose. A beginner has no reputation, only curiosity. A beginner says, “Hey, I don’t know […]

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Where to build your career?

Q: How do you know the one area you want to grow & build your career in? What if there are multiple interests/skills an individual has? 👉 A: It is a process of experimentation / elimination. Passion follows flow and not the other way around. And flow comes from being good at something, overcoming obstacles that […]

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Deny autopilot. Change the default.

Deny autopilot. Change the default. 1) Anything that is important, anything that is worth doing, is worth giving your full attention. Deep learning and compounding improvement takes deliberate practice and full mindfulness to what you are doing is the first step. For this to happen you have to stop ‘going with the flow’. Don’t go […]

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The power of deadlines

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Parkinson’s law. We are terrible at estimating how much time a new activity or project will take. Whatever time you allocate for a project, you will end up ‘generating’ busy work to fill it. ⚡ The best way to get things done? Understand […]

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Make good art

When in doubt about your next step at work, make good art. When you are unsure about how to spend your leisure time, make good art. Want to spend quality time building strong relationships? Get together and make good art. Can’t choose between two paths of storytelling or campaigns or business plans? Choose the one […]

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A day well spent

What does a day well spent look like? 1) Working really hard on a problem that really matters to you, your company and to the world, at the cost of many other lesser important problems that are vying for your attention. 2) Making progress in that problem by moving ideas, execution and the team ahead. […]

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