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5 Boring Ways to Unleash Your Self-Expression

Do you feel like you are in a rut? Are your feelings, thoughts, and ideas being repressed or disregarded? The secret to releasing your inner creativity and potential may lie in self-expression. Throughout human history, it has been a vital endeavor to explore oneself....

Unleash Your Creativity: Unlocking the Power of Self-Expression

For as long as I can recall, I have been troubled by the belief that I am devoid of creativity. While I am a writer, I am not the imaginative type who makes things up effortlessly. I am like a baker who is lost without the directions in a recipe, a percussionist who...

Knowing When to Quit: Your Best Decision for Personal Growth

“Never give up!”, “Don’t quit!” “Keep on going” and Vince Lombardi’s famous quote, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win,” are all popular well-meaning statements made to challenge and encourage us to give our very best and persevere until we achieve success....

8 Ways to Become and Stay Motivated

As humans, we tend to naturally gravitate towards pleasurable things and follow the path of least resistance. Therefore, when we set a goal for ourselves — anything from landing our dream job, running a marathon, or starting a podcast — it is a big step toward...

5 Ways to Overcome Your Digital Addiction

You are waiting for an elevator. The doors slide open, you enter, and they close. As the elevator begins its descent, you notice another person is in the elevator taking this ride with you. The silence soon grows uncomfortable. Pop quiz. What’s your go-to move? A)...

Six Ways to Benefit from the Importance of Patience

We all have goals, dreams, expectations, and aspirations that we strive for each day. The achievement of these things makes us feel whole, joyful, and fulfilled and gives us reasons to keep living, even when things get tough. But in achieving them, we often want to...

The Science of Learning: It’s Vital For Your Success

In order to learn anything, whether it is math, a foreign language, or how to dribble a soccer ball, you need to create and strengthen pathways in your brain. Think about the first time you tried to kick or throw a ball. Your first time doing it, you didn’t have a...

Curiosity Is a Superpower — The Science and Traits of Curious People

A long time ago, there existed a small village named Naïve Hill. The inhabitants of this town were very conventional people who knew only to search around for wildly growing fruits, plants, and nuts, talk, and sleep. They all lived this basic lifestyle except one...

Good Morning Brave New Future, Welcome to the All Digital World

Consider the world around you and what do you see? Everything is being digitally enabled from the car you drive to the watch you wear on your wrist. Is this all-digital future for the better or worse?

The Bee and Turtle Effect Allowed Elon Musk to Pioneer Space

Elon Musk is such a unique and talented entrepreneur for countless reasons. But I think that one of his most striking qualities is that he has an acute sense of maximizing his day’s output while exercising tremendous patience toward his stunningly-high goals. That is...

The Overview Effect: Through the Lens of NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy

I was fortunate to interview Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy for my upcoming book just days before he launches to the International Space Station to take Command of Expedition 63. In this discussion, Cassidy and I discuss the "overview effect" that many...

How Lowe’s Created the First Interconnected Shopping Experience

Lowe’s built a seamless shopping experience between 2005-2010 that almost became the Holy Grail of retail. Now, the Home Depot is spending billions to try and replicate what Lowe’s attempted a decade ago

Is Applied Intelligence the Future of Data?

Cloud-based supercomputing, self-driving cars, hyper-personalization of customer experiences, and autonomous drones are all evidence of the dramatic changes taking place all around us. We are in the midst of what many have dubbed the "Fourth Industrial Revolution,"...

Why Company Transformation Should Forget Past Success

I see one of the most significant problems that successful companies can have is recently achieving substantial levels of past success. Share prices may be at all-time highs. Users or subscriber growth may have broken records. Morale within the company may be soaring....

Passion Struck: Practice Transformational Leadership | John R. Miles

I find today’s business world is full of CEOs and entrepreneurs who claim to be changing the world. They create and prioritize lofty mission statements and tell their colleagues to “be bold” and “take risks.” While it may be comforting to the CEOs or founders...