I get requests for advice from people starting youtube channels. My first piece of advice is “make bad videos”. When you are starting out, don’t aim for good… aim for done. If you make 1 “bad” video a week for 52 weeks… you will make many bad videos, but you will accidentally create a few … Read more
“Living Safely is Dangerous” Nietzsche What is your relationship to success and failure? I have been reflecting these recent weeks about how I respond to “failure” – when things do not turn out as I hoped or wished. The video below shares my thinking about a better way of approaching failure in our lives. How … Read more
I’ve felt that I’ve been more anxious about life over the last week or two… and have been reflecting in my journal about what might have triggered these negative thoughts. As we begin the new year, I’m in a mix between anxiety about setting goals and feeling an urgent need to rapidly get started on … Read more
Currently Reading January 2022… Living in a Real Time world, Jim Selman. non-fiction. Loving this book that shares context and 6 tools for living and leading in times of rapid change… and how we will always now be in times of rapid change. Flowers For Algernon: A Modern Literary Classic (S.F. MASTERWORKS); By: Daniel Keyes … Read more
I loved this twitter thread from Sahil Bloom on life’s great paradoxes. I believe that developing the mental ability to deal with the existence of paradox is an important part of becoming wise. Sahil’s initial tweet… What is a Paradox? A paradox is two seemingly opposite things that seem impossible but are actually both true. … Read more
Welcome to 2022. A couple of weeks back I shared something that my father said to me over and over again when I was young. “It might be their fault, but its your problem”. His point was always to take responsibility for what you yourself can actually control in any situation. Robbie van Persie shared … Read more
Sustainability, AI and Digitalisation are three important strategic concerns for all businesses. Covid has accelerated this process of transformation. Some jobs will disappear, and new types of jobs will be created. What skills will keep us valuable? A recent McKinsey report looked at the human skills that will remain in high demand as organisations adapt … Read more
A month ago it felt like the Covid virus was losing its capacity to disrupt our well made plans… but along comes Omnicron and the maths change again. We are living in the era of predictable unpredictability. All plans are flexible and adaptable. It is a state of existence that puts great pressure on our … Read more
Warren Buffett often says that he is less scared by the errors he has made than by the sheer enormity of all the opportunities that he never even saw as they passed him by. Your progress in life is far less linked to whether you execute perfectly on the things you actually act on, and … Read more
“Every opportunity is attached to a person. Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity — including one that has a financial payoff — you’re really looking for a person.” Entrepreneur and investor Ben Casnocha, Source: James Clear’s (excellent!) weekly newsletter My life is an … Read more