In Episode Nine, I remind you to call your mom. That is it. In this episode, we drew a phone in the video and literally the only thing we said to do is call your mom. Usually, these posts are a two minute read. Take the next minute and a half to give your mom…

In Episode Five, we discuss the difference between listening to respond and listening to understand. While you are watching these blank screen videos, or any video for that matter, you are listening for the sole purpose of understanding. There is no expectation for you to respond, it would actually be pretty weird if you did….

In Episode Thirteen, we talk about exploring versus exploiting. Brian Christian and Tom Griffis wrote the book “Algorithms to Live By.” This is a cool concept I pulled from that book. The concept is explore versus exploit, which they presented it as if you have a grandma, and every Friday, she goes down to bingo,…

In episode ten, we discuss the concept of a flow state. There is an Italian psychologist who came up with the concept of flow state, which is when our skill level matches the difficulty of a task. We might find ourselves in a flow state if we have a very high skill level for a…

In Episode Six, we talk about the bridge to success. In Season One, we talked about the recipe for success; identify the next step, take the next step, evaluate, and repeat. But where do you do that? Let us start by defining where you want to go as a place. I like to think that…

In Episode Three, I show you how simplistic thinking is different than elegantly simple thinking. A gentleman by the name of Carl Richards, who is a financial advisor and sketch artist, has made the ideas of simplistic thinking and elegantly simple thinking popular. Similar to the way the peak of mount stupid exists, Carl Richards…