Psychedelics Could Boost Empathy for Peaceful Negotiations
Whatever the outcome of tonight, let’s hope it is a non-violent one. It is yet another reminder that the world needs more love, compassion, and empathy. I believe psychedelics and MDMA have the potential to enhance these qualities. Perhaps in the future, leaders will be better able to think outside the box - and recognize that there are more effective negotiation tools than threats and counter-threats. A joint psychedelic experience could be one of them. For those interested, I highly recommend exploring the fascinating work of @LeorRoseman , whose research I have been proud to support: https://t.co/642wOInt7h
Obsession, Not Discipline, Drives the Best Founders
Never built through discipline. Built through obsession. The best founders I know aren't more disciplined than everyone else. They just found the thing they can't stop thinking about.
Sit with the Urge Before Acting.
Learned today that ACTION URGES is NOT THE SAME as ACTIONS TAKEN. Learn to SIT with the urge before an action is taken. THATS THE SKILL. WHEW. (women's mental health specialist certification course)
Essential Habits for a Calm Nervous System
Non negotiables for a calm nervous system: • Morning sunlight before screens • Walk every day • Lift a few times per week • Eat food that keeps your energy stable • Stop flooding your mind with input • Protect sleep like it changes everything • Breathe...
1:1s Build Trust, Not Problem Updates
So many people miss this point. The purpose of 1:1s is ❌ not to hear problems ❌ not to get updates The purpose of 1:1s is to build a relationship with the direct report so that the manager can depend less and less...
Be the Lighthouse: Show up, Serve, Grow Daily
You are a lighthouse. No matter how dark it gets. No matter how hard they make it. No matter what they throw at you, you still have the power to show up, give, and serve. That’s not a small thing. That’s...
Motivation Can't Be Forced—Plant Growth Seeds Instead
As a parent or coach, the hardest moments come when you clearly see someone’s potential, yet they can't. You can’t force motivation—but you can plant seeds. Here's what to do about it: https://thegrowtheq.com/you-cant-force-motivation-you-can-plant-the-seeds/
Scale Numbers Mislead; Prioritize Body Composition Over Weight
I used to weigh myself every morning. For years. If the number went up I would eat less. If it went down I felt accomplished. I built my entire sense of health around a number on a scale. When I was...
Prioritize Life Over Stock Worries; Trust Good Companies
If you are worried about the stock price, go to your car, choose some good music, put in the destination, press the button ... then relax ... then tell your family you love them. Don't waste time and energy on worrying...
Build Workplace Resilience Amid Continuous Disruption
Change at Work: Building Resilience in an Age of Constant Disruption @ABPsychologists https://t.co/4VCLtz1hOK #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Beyond Productivity: Discover the True Value of Work
Productivity measures output. Productiveness asks what it all adds up to. My upcoming book explores the deeper layer beneath systems, tactics, and tools. Join the quiet build: https://t.co/S2Z73N4u1G https://t.co/ZWpaPSjPCZ
Prioritize 4‑hour Days over 7‑figure Titles
Stop trying to be a '7-figure CEO'. Start trying to be a 'work 4 hours a day' founder. The goal isn't a bigger number. It's a better life. Build systems that serve you, not the other way around.
Prioritize, Power‑Down, and Repeat for Daily Productivity
8 Steps to Unlock Your Productivity: 1. Write down 9 things you will get done today. 2. Rank them 1 through 9. 3. Turn off your phone. 4. Do #1 right now. 5. Then do #2. 6. When you're done #9 reward yourself. 7. Wake...
Confidence Grows by Facing Hardship, Not Avoiding It
Confidence is not built by avoiding difficulty. It is built by facing it. Discipline, health, and growth all ask the same thing: show up even when it is hard. Do not fear failure. Fear staying the same. The strongest version...
Beyond Paycheck: Redefine Identity After Retirement
Work gives you more than income. It gives you identity. A sense of progress. A reason to move. Take that away, and something deeper surfaces. Not a financial question—but a personal one. Who are you when the role you’ve played for years no longer exists? Learn...
Turn Repeated Claude Chats Into Reusable Skills
If you keep having the same conversation with Claude over and over again, you're doing it wrong. That conversation is a skill waiting to be built.↓ Next time you do a workflow with Claude, at the end just say: "Go through...
Calm Mind, Strong Man, Smarter Trades
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and...
Stress Is Inevitable; Build Capacity, Don't Seek Absence
A lot of us are chasing the absence of stress. We think if we just get the right routine, the right job, the right boundaries in place, it'll finally stop showing up. But stress is part of being a full human...
Self-Made Billionaire Defies College, VC, Becomes Activist
He never attended college and couldn't raise any venture financing, but he built a $3.35B company anyway. Then he became an activist investor.
Jung Labels Addiction as Spiritual Crisis: What It Means
In 1961, Carl Jung wrote a letter to the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He said addiction is a spiritual crisis. Everyone quotes it, but the question it raised is still unanswered: What does a spiritual crisis actually look like inside the psyche? 🧵
Admitting I Don't Know My Core Self Transformed Me
I’ve hosted hundreds of guests. I almost never raise my hand during my own Q&A 🙋♀️ But when @drnatasha.j spoke at my Made to Scale Mastermind and asked each of us to identify who we are at our core, I raised...
Redefine Your Job as Outcomes, Not Tasks, to Leverage AI
Your job is not the tasks you do. This is a critical reframe that every knowledge worker must embrace in order to successfully adapt to AI. Especially true given that the current frontier models are mind-blowingly good and the next...
Stress Harms; a Few Minutes Delay Is Harmless
Stress kills, 5 minutes behind does not. Have you ever heard the saying, “haste makes waste”? This is why 🧠 Your brain trades clarity for speed when you rush. Of course I dont TRY to be late, but if im running...
Know Their Motivation, Predict Their Behavior
People are hard to understand when you don’t know what motivates them. Once you learn what motivates a person - you can fairly accurately predict their behaviors.
Meaning Is Assigned, So Letting Go Becomes Easier
Letting go gets easier when you realize the things you're holding onto only have meaning because you gave it to them.
Teach Kids Money Mindset, Not Just Money
Something I've been thinking about recently... Your kids will inherit your beliefs about money more than they'll inherit your money. Teach them: • Money is abundant • Value creation compounds • Risk is managed, not avoided Or watch them repeat your limitations.
Identify Emotions, Then Extract Wisdom and Move Forward
Identifying your emotions is important, but it's only half the battle. We often get caught up in this first phase of emotional agility & miss out on the deeper wisdom to be gained. Ask yourself these questions to first learn...
Great People, Great Places: Success Depends on Your Environment
Two weeks in NYC reminded me of something... If you want to build something great you have to be around great people, its really that simple and most ppl completely ignore it. Go look at who you're spending your time with,...
Courage Guides Action; Agency Lacks Moral Direction
"'Courage' has a moral valence that agency doesn’t. Agency is about action, but it tells us nothing of direction. You can just do things, sure, but what will you do?" We've "collectively lost a sense of moral guidance" and don’t...
Schedule Tasks by Stimulation, Not Importance, Boosts ADHD Productivity
Productivity trick for ADHDs: Schedule tasks by stimulation, not importance. Most productivity advice tells you to organize your day by priority. Most ADHD brains don’t care about what’s “most important”. Their brains choose tasks based on stimulation, friction, dread, novelty, and whether the...
Only 1% Truly Thrive in Entrepreneurship
The cold hard truth: Most people are borderline incompetent. They make horrible decisions, constantly self-sabotage themselves, and have zero ability to delay gratification. This group basically gets supported by the other 50%. These folks take more value than they add. The next 45% is...
Purpose Deficit May Accelerate Biological Aging
This is one of the most interesting theories I've seen in a long time. Could aging be partly a cybernetic problem? In other words, we run out of goals, meaning, purpose, and that accelerates the biological aging process. There is...
Luck Is a Habit, Not Random Chance
The people who seem "lucky" almost always have a habit you don't see. They read more, they reach out more, they show up more. Luck is intentional, but it looks random from the outside.
Create Safety, Let Mentees Seek Solutions, Not Answers
The hardest part of mentoring someone you believe in is holding back the answer to a problem they have not finished solving yet. The real work is creating enough safety that when they are ready, they come to you to...
Cursive Writing Sharpens Focus and Memory in Digital Age
Most of our work today happens on screens. We type, switch between tools, and handle constant input. It's efficient, but it often comes at the cost of focus and depth of thinking. I started noticing this in my own work. I...
Cut the Nonessential, Gain Time and Tranquility
"Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?" -Marcus Aurelius
Stop Perfecting: Ship 80% and Scale
Most agency owners don’t delegate because they think nobody can do it like them. Perfection is the most expensive thing in your agency. Every hour you spend polishing something from 80% to 100% is an hour you’re not spending on the...
Mental Models: Essential Tools for Agribusiness Success
Mental Models for Agribusiness Leaders ◼︎◼︎◼︎ Recently, I talked with @timhammerich on The Future of Agriculture, one of my most listened to podcasts. It was a ton of fun to join Tim and talk about some of the concepts that have been...
Shift Focus From Habit to Underlying Energy
To change your relationship with something (whether it’s alcohol, sugar, shopping or scrolling) instead of focusing on the behaviour, look at the energy behind the behaviour. It’s not about the ‘thing’. It’s about your relationship to the thing.
True Confidence Is Resilience, Not Guaranteed Victory
Nobody tells you this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you know failure is never final.
Daily Fear: Push Yourself Beyond Comfort Zones
"Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You" - debut From The Trenches blog from Linda Bain, serial biotech executive and Venture Partner at Atlas, on pushing yourself to the uncomfortable... https://t.co/eyXGovi3FX
Run Your Entire Business Inside Perplexity Computer
I can run my entire business with Perplexity Computer without navigating away from the app itself. Absolutely wild productivity.
Skip OpenClaw: 50 Hours, $600, No Results
𝗜 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟱𝟬 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 $𝟲𝟬𝟬 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 Last week I was home sick with a cold. My body was begging for rest. But I’m an Enneagram 3. Threes don’t rest. We produce. So instead of...
Self‑mastery and Unbowed Resilience in the Face of Adversity
Two thoughts from William Ernest Henley “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” “Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
Connect with Peers, Accept Not Being #1, Beat Imposter Syndrome
I used to struggle from imposter syndrome. Here are 2 things that helped me get over it: 1. Meet other people in your industry I remember meeting a bunch of "world-class marketing experts" at a conference. Needless to say, I was nervous. But when...
Discipline Becomes Freedom When Aligned with Your Desired Self
We often think of discipline as something heavy… something we have to force. But what if it’s not punishment at all? What if discipline is simply choosing the life that feels right—again and again—until it becomes natural? Because when your actions align with...
Mental Pain Originates Within, Not From Others
No one can cause mental pain to you. It is caused by you and no one else but you, in reaction to something that happens around you. #SadhguruWisdom https://t.co/X7sW7kg8Ii
Your Mind Deceives Hundreds Daily—Observe the Illusion
Your mind lies to you hundreds of times a day Observe and you will see.
Practice Bridges the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The gap between “I get it” and “I can do it” is practice. Most people never close it.
Building Leadership Resilience for the AI-Driven Workplace
Psychology of Work #Podcast Episode 52: Leadership resilience in the age of #AI – A conversation with Dr Marie-Hélène Pelletier @ABPsychologists https://t.co/qYS68bJiRa #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR