The Stress Response Cycle: The Surprising Science Behind Feeling Better The internet is littered with a lot of content to manage stress, and nobody knows what they are talking about. The basic premise is this: learn to chill. But if it was so easy to chill and relax, there wouldn’t have been to many motivational videos in the first place.
Fermi Problems: How You Think About A Problem Is More Important Than The Solution If a question is asked in a school exam, you know that the answer exists. But in a wicked world, often there’s no clear indication that you are approaching the correct solution. Therefore how you think about solving problems becomes more important than the solutions themselves.
Life Is A Death Sentence: You Can Either Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying Life is a death sentence. We all die eventually. It can be sooner or later, but die we will. With that information, you can either get busy living, or get busy dying.
Inside View: Why This Time It’s NOT Going to be Different We focus on a problem by using information that is close at hand. We make predictions based on our unique set of inputs. The more closely we know a problem, the more confident we are. This is wrong!
The Perks of Being A Renaissance Man People who try out different things and dabble with new domains are labelled as "jack of all trades, master of none." It cannot be further from the truth.
Kind v Wicked Domains: Why Sports Champions Aren’t Your Success Gurus Knowledge and experience cannot be generalised. Skillset in one domain isn’t always transferable to another domain, i.e., they are often domain dependent. A great chess player isn’t automatically a great strategist. A good poker player isn’t automatically a good dealmaker.
Where Do I Begin? Before starting to learn something, you hunt for the best book, the best blog post, the best video, the best tutorial, the best online class before you even begin to learn. This method is flawed!
Healthy Friction: When You Want Something, All The Universe Conspires Against You As a kid, whenever I wanted something for myself, my father turned it into a challenge. This was his way of putting a “healthy friction” in my way to test my conviction—do I really want it? How much do I want it? How hard am I willing to work for it?