Category: Personal Growth

Leadership, Personal Growth

How to Get Ready for the Higher Order Tasks when AI is Ready for the routine One’s

Premise: There is a lot being said about the capabilities of AI tools and how they can bring in so much efficiencies and free up humans to do higher value tasks instead. So, I have been thinking about what these higher value work would look like? Given the depth and width of knowledge and skills that these tools have amassed, is there any skill that we can bring to the table to ensure that we are not becoming redundant? Here is what I have come up with. There are 5 skills that are still uniquely human and that any AI […]

Personal Growth

Learn Any Hard Skill by Cal Newport

Premise: We live in a world that is changing much faster than we can keep pace with. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence is a testament to this. As I talk in my book Thrive, we will be called upon to learn something new all the time, just to stay relevant. If we are to thrive, we need to be able to turbo charge our ability to learn. It is in this context that I really liked a video posted by Cal Newport, that he released at the start of the year on his YouTube channel and would like to […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

Why do I Continue to Blog and You Should too

I have been writing on this blog for more than 12 years and this is my 851st post. I wanted to reflect on the experience. For a variety of reasons (some known and some unknown), this blog never became popular nor did I get significant number of visitors. I do not make any money from the blog. So, my friends, family and colleagues have asked me many a times the question: If you are not making money of this, why do this at all? What is your purpose of spending so much time and effort on writing and maintaining your […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

Mindsets to Thrive

The agility and ability to switch between mindsets are what will set you apart from everyone around you and enable you to thrive in any given condition.

Leadership, Personal Growth

A System for Becoming Better Leaders

One of the most important thing that we can do as a leader is to find a way to continue to grow as a person and as a leader on a regular basis. This is one of the fundamental habits that transforms us from being amateur leaders to professionals. I was first introduced to the Shamrock system for continuous and holistic growth in my conversation with David Burkus on my podcast. You can listen to my entire conversation with David here. This is a very simple system that was created by the legendary mixed martial artist Frank Shamrock. This is […]