Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract

Premise: It seems that our brains are naturally wired to think in an additive way when we are trying to solve problems. It is one of those brain hacks that we picked up from our ancestors but is no longer as useful to us as it was to them. So, if we can learn to think in the opposite direction, i.e, in a subtractive way, we might surprise ourselves with the solutions that we might arrive at. The Research and its Findings: Here is a research paper published by Nature which looks at this phenomenon and concludes We show that […]

Avoiding Overwhelm – Managing the Workload of Being a Leader

One of the challenges that all entrepreneurs face is managing the workload. Being an entrepreneur is not easy. It takes a lot of time, energy, effort and attention. In this short video, Amy Jen Su, shares her perspective of how can we manage our workload and still have peace of mind and not get overwhelmed. She shares the 4P’s that we need to work on individually in order to achieve the 5th P (Peace of Mind): Personal Operating system: What she means is how we do operate as an individual. Do we have a single place where we capture everything […]