Tag: Think

How To Think Like An Algebraist

If you were an enthusiastic and talented high school mathematics student in the UK in 1988, you would have studied elementary Group Theory as part of your Advanced Level (A-level) curriculum. Sadly this is not the case any more. Several years ago, Group Theory was removed from the A-level curriculum...

Why You Should Think of Your Life as a Startup

The period between the ages of 18 and 24 is the most important stage of our lives in terms of personal and professional development, development that leads to our long-term success as people. Let’s see why I say this period of life is very important. Let’s draw a parallel between a...

Do you still think about the war?

If before I was afraid of sirens, now I wait for them. I wait for the siren to scream again and drown out all the other sounds of Kyiv. Too often, Kyiv sounds too normal. Cars sound like normal cars. People sound like normal people. Birds sound like normal birds. Everyone and everything sounds too n...

Why do we care what others think above what we think ourselves?

How much time do you spend worrying about what other people think about what you are doing in your own life? The truth is, once you care about what others think of you, you have no life of your own. We can surround ourselves with an abundance of material goods. We can attain the contemporary social-...

Something To Think About

The older I get the more I realize that everything really is that deep. The people you confide in, trust, date, become friends with, where you work, the opportunities you take. What you watch, what you eat, and even what you consume. We all have been raised on the lie that to feel loved and apprecia...

Something To Think About

The way I care for people makes me wish I had somebody like me in my life. https://instagram.com/onetostars ”I know we were temporary,” he said. ”Sometimes people come into your life and all you can do is appreciate them while they’re there; and try not to get at...

You Are *NOT* What You Think You Are

Do you also believe in the adage, “You are what you think?” Well, to be honest, I believed it in for many, many years. I used to think our thinking make or breaks us. It is true in so many ways. After all, a thought, if chosen carefully, can make you anxious or at peace. But h...

Managers—Once Every Week or So, You Need to Schedule Time to Think

I know being a manager is overwhelming because I’ve been in your shoes. I’ve been managing teams and training managers for the past decade. For managers, the work is constant: meetings, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, nonstop emails, Slack messages, questions from team members, etc. ...

Re-Think Your Next Re-Org

When was the last time you went through a company re-org? Re-orgs seem to be happening more and more regularly, especially with large organizations, and the excuses for them are often tenuous. Within the startup world, there’s buzz that Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter are providin...

Recycling? Shorter Showers? No. We Must Think Bigger.

Most of us will be city-dwellers in the future. Three million people are moving to cities every week, and by 2050, 68% of the global population is projected to live in urban areas.  But with so many people living in cities, how will this affect the environment? Ci...