Difficult Decisions Being a cricket captain is a hard job and one with struggles just like all of us may have in our jobs. Recently Pat Cummins, captain of Australia’s men’s cricket team gave an interview on The Imperfects. Last year he flew to India to captain his team, knowing his mother was not far from death. “I knew when I was getting on that… Read More »Pat Cummins and Focusing on what you CAN do
Decisions are hard! We can easily become impulsive and make a choice on a whim. Or we can go the other way and over-think. We become indecisive for fear of making the wrong decision. Emotions naturally come and further impact our capacity to decide well. So what do we do: switch off our emotions and only think logically, or buy into our emotions? Who should… Read More »How to Decide – Annie Duke: Make more effective decisions
Habits are a combination of cue, action and reward. Broadening your awareness of the cues and the rewards – what sets your habit going and what you are getting out of it, enables you to hijack this loop and develop it into one that is healthier. Who should read this? Anyone who wants to stop a bad habit, like smoking or endless instagram scrolling (follow… Read More »The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg: Improve your cue and reward
A growth mindset is knowing that you can improve and evaluating yourself on how you’re trying to do that not on current ability. Who should read this? Anyone! If you’re looking to change your mindset towards improving and learning and challenging yourself and changing your relationship with failure. Quote I found helpful: “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail –… Read More »Mindset – Carol Dweck: Focus on Growth not Evaluation