Re/Think Zone
Most of these ideas aren't mine. The connections are.
Think of me as your filter. Thousands of business books. Millions of articles. Endless podcast episodes.
I collect the ideas worth keeping. I test them. I sharpen them. I connect them. I strip away the BS.
Then I give them back in plain English.
One useful idea every two weeks. Enough to help you see what you couldn't see before. Pull on any thread. See where it takes you....
Have you ever seen ballroom dancers float across the dance floor? Clumsy dancers think one step at a time. But professionals dance with flowing movements. You've got to…
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When choosing between two paths, choose the path that has a larger luck surface area. Much of what we call "luck" is the macro result of 10 000s of micro-actions that…
Darren Hardy wrote a great book called The Compound Effect. The opening lines tell you this is a book about success and what it truly takes to earn it. In a world where…
Mediocre ideas never elevate the heart rate. Great ones make you break out in a sweat. Here’s one I’ve been obsessing over. MIT professor Peter Senge has made his life’s…
Richard Wiseman, a great street magician, psychologist and researcher, did a study with two groups. One group of people thought of themselves as lucky and the other…
We all need a swim buddy. I'll get to that here in a moment. But, before we dive in, let's rewind... There are zillions of books about leadership. Some involve the…
Back in the 1950s, Lila Wallace, a co-founder of Reader's Digest magazine, used to walk from office to office and tell the journalists: "It's a beautiful day. Turn off…
We are all familiar with the version of the Icarus Myth, where Daedalus warns his son Icarus not to fly too high because his wings from feathers and wax would melt. It’s…
If you're the kind of person who's overstretched, tired and calls everything a priority, here's a story for you. I didn't write it, didn't live it, and am not going to…
In a 2021 paper, published in the journal Psychological Review, Shigehiro Oishi makes the case that, along with happiness and meaning - which we consider the essential…
Love them or hate them, meetings make up a large chunk of what we call work. It’s how we discuss ideas, share updates, brainstorm and get things done. You're probably…