Growth Mindset
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda, and What People Actually Regret
Here’s a real story, but let’s anonymize him. We’ll call him Joey. So Joey, a local mild-mannered grown-up went to a high school soccer match in Virginia, and sat with friends and colleagues in the stands, on the home side, the side hosting the game. The game got competitive, the kids got all riled up, ...
Put More of You in Your Work
Here’s the obvious reason you shouldn’t use AI language models to write anything you care about: It’s not you. I just asked ChatGPT to read a contract and make sense of it. It did a pretty good job I thought. And sure, you can ask AI to whip up some marketing copy, or a product ...
Why a Micro-Adventure Can Be Just as Thrilling
Hello and welcome back! It’s summertime and I’m thinking a lot about how travel and adventure can be transformational. But it doesn’t have to be epic. It can be right in your backyard! Read on. Recently my wife and I set off with our friends Kris and Susan to bicycle around the famed Cabot Trail ...
Every Big Thing You Have Ever Done Required This
Hello and welcome back to our newsletter! Last week I was musing about ultrarunning Japanese monks. How they can possibly fathom their own astonishing goals? Not to oversimplify it, but basically they don’t. They just take it one step at a time. This week I’m thinking about how our attention is fracturing. Our eroding focus ...
Think of Conversation as Travel
Within every individual, there is an entire world within them, a universe of experiences, knowledge, joy and adversity. Think of conversation as travel, as an exploration. And just like actual travel, a deep conversation is also an adventure, an opening to new ideas and other ways of seeing the world. “Almost every crisis we’re facing ...
How to Become a Grateful Coach
To be a great coach that empowers his or her team, you have to adopt the mindset of coaching. Become a coaching manager and help others be happy and thrive at work with these mindset shifts. Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Coaching For Managers. My name is Shawn Hunter, and I’ll be leading us on ...
