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We Contain Multitudes

Walt Whitman said it best back in 1855: “I contain multitudes.” We all do. We all carry different identities around with us, often in competition …

Driving Off the Glass Cliff

British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, resigned earlier this week after only 6 weeks in office, the shortest tenure for any PM on record. There was …

Listen Like a Trampoline

Change without listening doesn’t happen. Why is this true? When you don’t listen, it signals that you think you already know enough. And if you …

Big Speech Coming Up? Here are a few tips

Step One: Don’t give a speech during the daylight. Ever. Step Two: When you give a speech (at night of course), opt for dark red ominous lighting. …

Marshall Goldsmith on the Essentials of Leadership

Marshall Goldsmith started his career out as a business school professor but ended up as one of the world’s top executive coaches. In Episode 142 …

All the Previous You’s

Recently, we listened to Marshall Goldsmith’s interview on The Knowledge Project, Episode #142. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the top executive coaches in the world, …

How to Avoid Driving Into a Lake

In the beloved sitcom, The Office, the main character Michael Scott drives his car into a lake. Why? Because he followed his GPS. He focused …

How to Get Ideas to Spread

Voter registration ends today in most states. That means the beloved American tradition of the “I voted” sticker is right around the corner. This simple …

Myth Busting with Mark Blyth

One of the smartest people we know is the Political Economy professor from Brown University, Mark Blyth. Before NN Taleb was a thing, he gave …

Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right

Henry Ford famously said, “whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Ford had many faults, but he certainly hit the …

What Hurricanes Teach Us about Humanity

We came across a great Twitter thread recently that shared anthropologist Margaret Mead’s take on the first signs of civilization. She shared that it’s not what you might …