There's a temptation to make career decisions based on the broader market (the macro-economic environment), but is that the best strategy for you? Here are some suggestions for you to consider... - Listen to others' advice but ask... - What are you trying to solve? - You and your interests are unique
Read MoreThere are two basic factors in understanding the result of decisions: luck and skill. We like to think that when we make good decisions, it's because of skill, and bad decisions are because of bad luck! But really, you can make a good decision, but get unlucky and have a bad result, and equally, you could make a bad decision and get lucky with a good result. It's important to distinguish between these two factors because otherwise, it could negatively affect your confidence in decision making.
Read MoreThis is a warning. It happens to many smart people that are diligent and well qualified. They get seduced. There, I said it.
Read MoreWhat's the best thing to do? What's the ideal way to go?
'The more choice the better' - that's what we have been led to believe. If you are careful and choose which you prefer the most, you'll be happier - even if it's just a small improvement.
But that's not true. The reality is that we can suffer 'paralysis by analysis'.
Read More“Do you know what Google did?”.
You’ve heard it said before as if it’s describing some game-changing business strategy that nobody else thought of at the time. The reality was much different with a myriad of complicated factors involved, many of which were totally unpredictable. Apple is the other classic story that is presented as inevitably successful, after the fact of course. In reality, many occurrences were entirely dependent on fate, not faith - as Apple commentators would have you believe. The problem with the real success stories is that they are complicated to understand, not quite as inspiring, and seemingly impossible to reproduce.
Read More“Men don’t talk” - that’s what I’ve been told. The statement is not just harsh and unfair; it’s untrue. I’ve met lots of men who talk, about their feelings too. Many of them love it. I’ve also met female clients who would prefer not to talk about anything. Generalisations are always wrong and there’s always an exception to the rule...
Read MoreSimple? Yes, very simple. Easy? Not necessarily. How many times will you ask yourself bad questions on any given day and get bad answers? We’ve all done it. This is something simple that we can consciously change just by becoming aware of it and having better options available to us.
Read MoreIn 2011, Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman released his book "Thinking Fast and Slow" which summarises research that he conducted over decades, often in collaboration with his colleague Amos Tversky. The book was an absolute game-changer as far as I am concerned. Kahneman successfully outlined and defined many common thinking errors which we all make from time to time. Being able to successful identify and avoid these errors will help us we make better choices in our personal and professional lives. That is the aim of this blog post.
Read More"We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them, even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision."
- Daniel Kahneman
Read More"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress,
working hard for something we love is called passion" - Simon Sinek
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