Don’t imprison yourself Not Edith, unfortunately | edited by the author | original image pixabay At 18 years old, Edith Eger lay in a pile of corpses with a broken back, typhoid and pneumonia. Thankfully, for humanity, she survived and has blessed the world with her psychological research. You need to know there is a
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And 13k followers as a complete beginner Created by the author. I’m sick of most advice about Medium. I started 2020 as a complete beginner and read a ton of bad advice that I was too inexperienced to ignore. Despite what people say, top writer tags claps, and read ratios are noise and don’t mean
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With simple infographics Created by the author — original image pixabay For many people, the only matrix worth knowing includes Keanu Reeves but they’d be missing out on great tools to navigate the complex world of running a business. It takes passion to start a company but this same fire can blind entrepreneurs to the
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Don’t replace ego with selfishness Created by the author — original Photo by Miguel Henriques on Unsplash Solve this riddle: 10 people enter a room to fix a problem. Each person leaves as soon as they realize they are smarter than the others. What’s the result? A lonely room and no solution. “If you are the smartest person
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How to not get squashed like a grape Created by Author — original image Wikimedia commons I’m ashamed it took Netflix’s release of Cobra Kai to remind me how perceptive The Karate Kid’s Mr. Miyagi was. It’s funny to think about how much a fictional character has influenced my life and the path I took. I wasn’t even
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Yet it is valuable anyway Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia Commons It is an understatement to say Ev Williams has had a massive impact on the way we use the web. The word “blog” itself was popularised by one of his early startups Blogger.com in 1999. What’s remarkable about this billionaire
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#3: Keep hope in control Created by the author “Everything changed the day my best friend disappeared.” There was a long silence around our campfire. Nobody knew what to say. “We were kids, we thought we were invincible.” There were a dozen other people around us but I couldn’t bear the silences anymore. What followed
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With infographic cheatsheets Created by the author Some entrepreneurs feel framework is a dirty word and rely purely on instinct for decision-making. Yet when it doesn’t work out, hindsight can be a nightmare. The management consulting industry is worth over $250bn and is built on the foundation of simple frameworks combined with experience. Frameworks are never a guarantee
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Lessons from the Japanese concept of ‘ikigai’ Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Years ago, during my time in Japan, I went to a bar with an elderly dojo master after five hours of intense karate training. We were soon joined by a rival teacher, and the two men, who had trained together as kids, began sharing
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