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When was the last time you realized that a long-held assumption you made was invalid?
Today, I’m going to share a doozy.
The natural order of things.
You’re born, you grow up, you get married, you have kids, they grow up, perhaps they produce...
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A country’s level of economic development is popularly assumed to be the same thing as its standard of living. For example, GDP growth (or decline) is a widely used indicator of whether or not that country is going in the right direction.
Because of this, it’s...
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When I teach assumption hacking, I find it’s as much about getting learners to *stop* certain behaviors as it is about getting them to learn new ones. As I wrote about last week, humans are hardwired to make assumptions. And once an assumption is made, the default...
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When my husband and I take a long road trip, the typical scenario is that I bring my laptop and get some work done while he drives.
Last week, I changed things up.
Despite 2.5 hours in the passenger seat and the many things that needed to get done, I decided to leave my...
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A friend asked me the other day if I’d be willing to share some insights with a group of CEOs. But this wasn’t your typical business group. Instead these CEOs had gathered themselves together for the express purpose of de-stressing.
“Hmmm”, I wondered...
A 5-minute read today...
What is more important: being successful or being happy?
This is the question I read in a recent New York Times article that the Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh posed to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
Benioff’s reply to the monk was “both”. A discussion...
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In last week’s Assumption Hacker's Advantage, I described the I KNOW! mindset. I talked about how it hinders our ability to improve the things we care about improving.
This week, I want to share some tell-tale signs with you, for when you’re smack dab in the...