Personal Development

“Learning strategies via @ImpactWales and @tnvora”

“🔷 Risk taking 🔷 Humble self reflection 🔷 Openness to new ideas 🔷 Careful listening 🔷 Solicitation of opinions Sketchnote by @tnvora based on ideas by @JohnPKotter”

Regardless of where we choose to apply ourselves, deliberate practice can help us maximize our potential. Read this brief guide to learn more.

You have in yourself so much power if you know where to look at and how to use it. Fortunately, these great TED talk speakers have shared their research and experience to help you achieve whatever …

“The difference between information and knowledge:”

By Matthew Warren. Testing and question generation during learning improved university students' exam results a week later

Why are so many Olympic records broken in the afternoon? Does the body perform differently at this time of day than say, early morning? The team at social sharing app Buffer explains how to tap into your body's "clock" to find the optimal times for sleep, exercise, work, and more.

Learning new skills is one of the best ways to make yourself both marketable and happy, but actually doing so isn't as easy as it sounds. The science behind how we learn is the foundation for teaching yourself new skills. Here's what we know about learning a new skill.

Six Things You Should Know About How Your Brain Learns

Upcoming Workshop: 31st July 2021, 7:30PM IST Register Here The Challenge of Our Times.. Visual Thinking is.. Our world is getting more and more complex Information overload is real, sense-making is hard. Customers have too much of information, too little attention Businesses and concepts are too textual and abstract …a way to use simple visuals […]

Jack Welch said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” Continuous learning and its respective implementation to generate desired business outcomes is at the core of successful organizations. Peter Senge defined a learning organization as the one “where people continually expand their capacity to create […]

Social media is abuzz with stories of people learning new things to make the most of their time in isolation and distancing, which is great. But I feel that learning cannot be an event confined to a few weeks of lockdown, especially when we are stressed about so many other things. Pandemic impacts everyone differently […]

Learning, the real learning, happens… When you are intentional about learning When you are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external triggers and rewards. When you ask more questions to get to the WHY of things (and then to what and how) When you carry an open frame of mind […]

As someone who is committed to lifelong learning, I am very curious about how we learn (sketchnote here). We learn the most during our early years and observing/helping my own kids learn and explore new things is such a wonderful learning experience as well. I learn a great deal about learning when I see my […]

When our mind is like a mountain, it is nothing but a heap of fixed beliefs and knowledge that does not evolve. To have a mind like a valley, we need to pursue things with a sense of wonder, knowing that we don’t know and having a receptive frame of mind ready to absorb. An […]

Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. Leaders risk relevance quite fast if they continue to operate in an isolated box within a tight hierarchy. When the complexity around us increases, we need more connected leadership that is constantly making sense of evolving patterns, thinking and mindset. Leadership that is social in approach […]

I started 2019 by delivering a TEDx talk at TEDxGCET in Vallabh Vidyanagar. This post covers a few key insights extracted from the talk. Video to be posted soon. Formal education is a launch pad that equips us with fundamentals. But we need wings to fly long and high in the direction of our dreams. […]

Working with so many people, I have come to a rough observation that professionals broadly fall in two categories – ones that ‘have a plan’ around their learning pathways and the ones that don’t. We live in a world of infinite possibilities and sometimes, the very breadth of choices available to use can blind us, […]

No significant learning happens only through consumption of insights. It happens when we act on what we learn, go through the experience, take risks and then develop insights through the lens of that experience. Just like organizations need to build right mental models for creating a learning organization, individuals need to build mental habits that […]

Ready to form better habits? Check out these nine TED talks on creating new habits, breaking bad ones, and more.

You have in yourself so much power if you know where to look at and how to use it. Fortunately, these great TED talk speakers have shared their research and experience to help you achieve whatever …

Kakeibo is a century-old Japanese budgeting system that emphasizes mindfulness and simplicity. Here's everything you want to know plus printables to get you started

From the May 6, 2020 issue of Further For most of us, the pandemic is a source of additional financial stress. I say “additional” because Gen X is used to being known as savings slackers, maybe due to our unique position of supporting both growing children and aging parents. That means worries about our family’s …

One of the most basic takeaways from a facilitated session is an action plan. This can be as simple as a bulleted list on a flipchart synthesizing all the decisions from the event. For higher engagement and accountability, you can put recording the actions in the hands of the participants. Here's t

The project plan methods used by professional organizers can easily be used in your home or office for project management, scheduling & more.