Why your approach can often give you the results that talent alone can’t — We’re a talent-based society. We shower the most talented people with praise and admiration. We focus on how high people can jump, how fast they can run, and how smart they are. And as a result, we follow them on whatever social media accounts we can. We take this view…

Why we hide from others even when we desperately need each other — Why do we hide from each other? Is it societal norms that restrict the way we express ourselves? Is it the embarrassment we feel because of past actions? Is it because of how we tell ourselves that we’re being silly and that our problems aren’t that big? When we’re in…

There’s no warmer place to hide than in the belief that you just wanted to help. — But… I didn’t mean to…. I just wanted to… I didn’t intend to…. How did this happen? Our intentions tell us who we are as people. They help us know what values we have. They show us what’s truly important to us. And in general our intentions are noble. We…

How the stories we believe make us feel inadequate. — I could feel my heart sink when they turned to me and asked me for advice. We had a call to make and my opinion mattered. That should be a good thing, right? Then why did I initially panic when they turned to me? When you’ve been working for a…

A beginner’s guide (it was made by a beginner) — “I’ll write that article later, it’s too difficult to do right now” “I’ll wait until I’m feeling more creative, I’ll write that article them” The. End. End-note: If you listen to those voices inside your head, you won’t write anything. You’ll always talk yourself out of starting. …

The power labels have — A quote I heard helped me crystallize the way I’ve thought about labels for a very long time. Robert Frost described a diplomat beautifully. He said that a diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s date of birth but never remembers her age. And that is simply genius. …

Being rational is not the endgame. It’s simply a means to an end. — A book rarely leaves me this pensive. But thinking fast and Slow did just that. The author teaches us that we’ve got two primary systems. One is automatic and the other deliberate. The automatic system is fast. It’s sometimes called our intuition. The deliberate system is much slower and takes…

life commit -m “be happy :)” (ask your programmer friend) — Running through the park without a care in the world. Not a care in the world is exactly how I ended up dropping the house keys and my pocket money. I didn’t realize what had happened so I simply when home. It’s funny how you can’t get into a locked…

To be exceptional is not a gift only given to a few. We are all born with great potential to be exceptional. — Somewhere along the way, we stopped dreaming. We started watching others dream instead. Scroll. Click. Like. Somewhere along the way, we started to believe that only other people can reach their dreams. Only the select few are exceptional enough to do so. E.g. your favourite superhero movie.