Category: Self-Knowledge
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Learning Patience – Becoming Mindful of My Daily Activities
I share a tool that I have used to become mindful of my daily activities. This video is from the IESE EMBA Intensive week and I share an exercise that I have been doing for the last few months – that has shown me that “feeling in a rush” is one of the big detractors […]
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The Power of Perspective: The 4 Seasons of our Life
This video is about the 4 seasons of nature, and the 4 seasons of our life. Farmers understand the seasons – they don’t plant in autumn and try to reap a harvest in winter… they know that spring is for planting, summer is for nurturing and autumn is for reaping. In our own lives we […]
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Use your Brain for Thinking, not for Remembering
Write stuff down. I say it over and over again. I repeat myself. My blog is an extension of my habit of writing down ideas. A short pencil is longer than the longest memory. “Writing is among the greatest inventions in human history, perhaps the greatest invention, since it made history possible. Yet it is […]
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Life is Difficult. How to Handle it… The Road Less Travelled by M Scott Peck
This weeks video is inspired by a book: The Road Less Travelled, by M. Scott Peck. The book begins with the statement “Life is difficult”. It is my failure to understand this, believing that my life should be easy and problem-free that is the root of suffering. Life is not meant to be easy, and […]
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Innovation and the Creative Process: Ferran Adria’s 3 Types of Innovation
This video is about Innovation and the 3 types of innovation as described by Ferran Adrià, the world’s best chef. He tells us that there are 3 levels of innovation… and that it is type 3 innovation that really moves humanity through a step change in progress. Read more on Innovation on the blog: 4 […]
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The Simplest Definition of Success
I have worried for too much of my life about whether I am a success or not. This video shares the simplest and most empowering definition of success that I have found. It comes from Pema Chodron. It is a wonderful reflection for me about how I am living my life. Am I learning to […]
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We are Blind to anything beyond our Imagination, A story of a lost tribe in Papua New Guinea
This is a story about a lost tribe in Papua New Guinea. They were brought to the city of Singapore and shown skyscrapers, airports, factories, supermarkets, homes and life. When they were on their way back to their mountain village, they were asked: “What is the most incredible thing you have seen during your days […]
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Your Success lives outside your Comfort Zone | Wise words from Kafka, Mueck, Anagor and Mills
Getting out of your Comfort Zone. I’m on a Sunday hike with Florian and his son Alvaro. We’re on our way toward the restaurant for lunch, when we find the river is overflowing and the foot bridge is under fast flowing water… What do we do? Are you waiting for permission? For the important things […]
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Purpose and Vision Beats Opportunism
Two Approaches to Life My friends live their lives in one of two contrasting ways: Guided by a Long term Vision for their Lives Take Opportunities as they come In the short term, the opportunists made great early progress. I have one friend who changed job every 1-2 years in the investment banking industry. Each […]