If you haven’t watched Inside Out, go and watch it: it’s deep! One simple but profound truth that it points out is that we all have voices, or even whole personalities, inside our heads. And quite often they take over the steering wheel.

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Most people have heard of meditation, and that it’s good for them. I think saying that its good for you is a huge understatement. It’s probably the one most transformative practice one can learn, especially as an entrepreneur.

So what’s the big deal about it? Continue reading Meditation →

You often hear that start-ups are difficult. Or that a particular situation at work is difficult. Difficulties are things we usually try to avoid. But in that’s simply not always possible when running a start-up, where “difficult” things happen every day. So let’s take a closer look at “difficult”.

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Enneagram is an intricate model of personality types, giving us detailed information about our personality archetype and its patterns of behavior.

There are 9 basic personality types. I, for example, identify with type 7 (“Enthusiast”) – an optimistic, variety-seeking, spontaneous personality, that thrives on action and experience, especially doing a variety of things. Continue reading Enneagram and Archetypes →

One of my favorite books is Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse. The book offers a profound paradigm of reality via two types of games: finite and infinite.

Finite games have a definite beginning and ending. They are played with the goal of winning. A finite game is resolved within the context of its rules, with a winner of the contest being declared and receiving a victory. The rules exist to ensure the game is finite.
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