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Graceful Context-Switching: The Art & Science of Multitasking Efficiently

As much as everybody—starting from productivity gurus, bloggers, YouTubers, authors, advisors, conference speakers, and ballroom attendees—would like to tell us how unproductive it is, multitasking is here to stay.

Don’t be Number One. Be The Only One.

People don’t back you because you are right. They back you because you’ve got a backbone. It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong. What matter is that you have skin in the game. You stand up for what you believe in. You are not number one. What matters is you are a “Category of One”.

Margin of Safety: An Antidote to Risk, Uncertainty, and Ignorance

No matter how smart or confident you (think you) are, it would be foolish to assume that everything is in your control, and nothing would go wrong. There are unknown unknowns lurking around. You need a Margin of Safety in your bets. Always!

You Don’t Need More If You Have Enough

We are brainwashed by society and culture to assume that more money equals more success, and hence more happiness. How true is that? Is it okay to be content with just enough? How much is just enough? Is the threshold same for everybody?

Effective Mentorship: Why The Best Leaders Don’t Create Followers

What is effective mentorship? How can we use rapport, optimism, character development, and loyalty to propel growth in others?

Antilibrary: Why What You Don’t Know is More Valuable Than What You Know

An antilibrary—the unread books in our collection—represents what we don’t know. It’s a reminder of our ignorance. It’s a delineation of the fact that even if we pursue knowledge for the next 100 years, we won’t be able to know everything there is to know. In fact, not even a tiny fraction of it.

If You Are Not Writing, You Are Not Thinking

No matter which field you belong, few exercises help clarify your thoughts better than writing. Writing is the ultimate test of whether your thoughts make sense, or are merely unstructured feelings. Writing is the best way to question your notions and opinions in order to make them stronger.

Desirable Difficulties: Why Effective Learning is Full of Mental Struggle And Frustration

The way schools teach is very archaic. It might have worked fifty years ago these days the jobs that have the most impact require us to be able to solve unexpected problems. School education has got a lot of catching up to do in that respect.