New Episode: Albert Einstein: Problem Solving

New Episode: Albert Einstein: Problem Solving

To whet your appetite for the upcoming Isaac Newton show we wanted to reshare one of the greats, Albert Einstein - enjoy!

A lot of people think that Albert Einstein’s greatest ability was his mathematical mind, but Einstein’s greatest skill was the ability to sift the essential from the inessential — to grasp simplicity when everyone else was lost in the clutter. Problems are an integral part of everyday life. So is problem-solving. But where people differ is in their ability to solve problems. Problem-solving has a synonym today, especially in the corporate world — fire fighting. Up to 70% of employees’ time is spent ‘fire fighting’. They spend more than six hours a day grappling with problems that should not exist. Imagine what organizations can achieve if hundreds or thousands of employees get these hours daily to work on something constructive!

Some problems should be solved. Some problems should be left alone. Some problems should not exist at all.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
Albert Einstein

New Episode: Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

New Episode: Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. Building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections and written by Eric Jorgenson.

So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?

“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop."
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

New Episode: Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation

New Episode: Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation

What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha's, The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness. Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series, and a Walmart executive.

After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life.

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony" Neil Pasricha

New Episode: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion

New Episode: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion

Serena Williams has revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and has won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other woman or man during the open era. Serena holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players and even won the Australian Open in 2017 while pregnant.

INTRO

Most underrated athlete of our lifetime

  1. Colin Cowherd_ Serena Williams

Don’t let others stop you from rising.

  1. Serena Williams reads Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

START WITH YOU

What motivated Serena to fight and make it

  1. Train hard

  2. Don’t let negative thoughts overtake and take priority

  3. Serena Williams_ 'Never Quit'

From the master to the student, Focus on the present, and you can handle pressure.

  1. Serena Williams’ Childhood Coach (Rick Macci)

MENTAL MODELS

Keep coming back after you fail; not everyone makes it the first time, SO KEEP TRYING.

6. Not everyone makes it on the first go

When you turn up, you have to play to win.

7. Always take part to win

Relax, have fun, and think about the big picture

8. Don't focus on the short term

OUTRO

If you fail, you can learn and be 10X better.

9. What does failing do for you

New Episode: Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

New Episode: Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

Every time you see him, he's laughing. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. If you ask him if he's happy, even after so much loss, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life and that the very motion of our life is toward happiness.

How to get there has always been the question. The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books, and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

New Episode: Tal Ben-Shahar: Happier - Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

New Episode: Tal Ben-Shahar: Happier - Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

Can You Learn to Be Happy? If you feel like you’re floundering when it comes to finding meaning in life, look no further than Tal Ben-Shahar’s Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment. He’ll give you some specific and actionable tips to increase your joy today.

Learn about this emotion in just 3 lessons:

  1. Happiness breeds success and all life goals point toward it.

  2. Balance your outlook on the present and future to get more joy in your life.

  3. Nurturing worthwhile relationships will make you happier.To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. Joe Gebbia, Airbnb

"When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates". Happier by Ben Tap Shahar

New Episode: Joe Gebbia: Airbnb

New Episode: Joe Gebbia: Airbnb

Airbnb Inc. Co-Founder Joe Gebbia is stepping back from a full-time role at the home rental giant to spend more time with his family and explore new projects at the company that made him a billionaire.

The Moonshots Podcast leaps into the world of design innovation with the co-founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia. To celebrate his work and learn how to make design breakthroughs and discover the courage and curiosity it requires.

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. Joe Gebbia, Airbnb

New Episode: Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights: Listener Favorite

New Episode: Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights: Listener Favorite

Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights is not a conventional memoir. As he neared age 50, the Oscar-winning actor revisited the journal he kept for 35 years to see what he could learn from it.

Matthew McConaughey describes a greenlight as a sign you should continue with what you are doing. You may believe these signs come from the universe, God, or by chance. All that matters is you pursue this greenlight when it emerges.

“This is a book about how to catch more YESs in a world of NOs and how to recognize when a NO might actually be a YES. This is a book about catching green lights and realizing that the yellow and the reds eventually turn green.” – Matthew McConaughey

Getting Everyone on the Same Page with a Shared Vision

Getting Everyone on the Same Page with a Shared Vision

Hello members and subscribers! The thirteenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are leaping into Leadership and Shared Vision!

As always we kick off with a slice of inspiration, and who better to get us started than Ken Blanchard who discusses how being a better manager starts with having a mindset that leans towards servant leadership, and our differentiation of vision and mission statements. We then have the heavy-weight champion, Simon Sinek, who breaks down the importance of having direction and introduces us to what a ‘Vision’ is.

Next up is 365 Careers which helps us grasp the concept of shared vision, and understand the importance of formalising a company’s purposes, goals, and values.

Looking forwards, as we plan to adopt vision and mission statements, we have Weekdone and their breakdown of how to measure objectives with team members, helping us learn how to set good OKRs. Closing out the show is Simon Sinek who has 3 ways to stress test your vision, including resilience, being inclusive, and being service-oriented.

Our recommended reading list and downloadable frameworks are available to help you go even deeper into the topic, so you can create your vision and mission statements today:

  1. Apollo Advisors, How to execute your bold business vision like Jeff Bezos

  2. Michael Hyatt, The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business

  3. Cameron Herold, Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool For Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future

  4. Dan Sullivan, Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork

  5. Gino Wickman, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

  6. Michael Stawicki, Directed by Purpose: How to Focus on Work That Matters, Ignore Distractions and Manage Your Attention over the Long Haul

  7. HBR, To Lead, Create a Shared Vision

  8. Forbes, How to Create a Shared Vision in your Organisation

  9. Ellevate, 11 Steps to Creating a Shared Vision for Your Team

  10. Ken Blanchard, The One Minute Manager

What key lesson are you taking from the Master Series shows? Get in touch and let us know! Thanks for listening. That’s a wrap.

New Episode: Dan Harris: 10% Happier

New Episode: Dan Harris: 10% Happier

Dan Harris the Author of 10% Happier and Nightline anchor embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes.

Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had both propelled him through the ranks of a hyper-competitive business and also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.

We all have a voice in our heads. It's what has us losing our temper unnecessarily, checking our email compulsively, eating when we're not hungry, and fixating on the past and the future at the expense of the present. Most of us would assume we're stuck with this voice that there's nothing we can do to rein it in, but Harris stumbled upon an effective way to do just that.

10% Happier takes you on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America's spiritual scene and leaves you with a takeaway that could actually change your lives.

What will you learn? How to deal with stress more effectively, mindfulness, and how to meditate.

New Episode: Jordan Peterson: Essential Rules

New Episode: Jordan Peterson: Essential Rules

Jordan Peterson has crafted a modern understanding of how to pursue what is truly meaningful for you. We dive into our top 5 motivating and inspirational rules from Jordan Peterson, spanning both his books and popular global bestsellers Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life & 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Dr. Peterson has published more than a hundred scientific papers and authored books, advancing the modern understanding of antisocial behavior, play, emotion, creativity, competence, personality, and finding meaning in the chaos. 

“Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned”. Jordan Peterson

New Episode: How David Goggins Broke the World Pull-up Record

New Episode: How David Goggins Broke the World Pull-up Record

Between the training and three attempts, Goggins did more than 67,000 pull-ups in nine months. But more than his physical endurance Goggins showcased the power of repetition.

  • He tried three times to accomplish this goal

  • Learning from each attempt

  • Never accepting he couldn’t meet the challenge

  • Not listening to the negative comments - that he didn’t have the physical strength to do it

Four pull-ups an hour doesn’t seem like much. Over time, it becomes increasingly more challenging to the muscles, but increasingly more empowering to the mind.

Small numbers grow through consistent repetition. Small numbers are boring and don’t seem useful in the grand scheme. But small numbers are a necessary step before getting to the large numbers.

“You have to callus your mind to overcome your doubts and failures and keep moving forward.” - David Goggins

New Episode: Michael Bungay Stanier: Do More Great Work

New Episode: Michael Bungay Stanier: Do More Great Work

When you’re up to your eyeballs answering emails, returning phone calls, attending meetings, and scrambling to get that project done, you can turn to this inspirational, motivating, and at times playful book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier. In fifteen exercises, Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that pushes you forward, stretches your creativity, and truly satisfies you.

The exercises are “maps”—brilliantly simple visual tools that help you find, start, and sustain Great Work.

New Episode: Cal Newport: A World Without Email

New Episode: Cal Newport: A World Without Email

Cal Newport doesn’t like the distractions of technology. In fact, Newport thinks that our focus on technology and how it dominates modern business is holding us back. His book, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, takes a sledgehammer to how technology runs the modern enterprise and, ultimately, our lives.

The idea is not to jettison email but to make it smarter. Instead of the back and forth, you get collaborative tools. You don’t even need to be a business owner or work in tech to have some of the messaging resonate with you, and stay with you long after you have finished. A World Without Email invites you to scrutinize how useful these tools are in your lives and reflect on the best practices.

New Episode: Cal Newport: Deep Work

New Episode: Cal Newport: Deep Work

Deep Work by Cal Newport is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive twenty-first-century economy.

Yet most of us have lost the ability to go deep—spending our days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.

Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite.

Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost

Hello members and subscribers! The twelfth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Critical Thinking and Opportunity Cost!

Getting us started on the journey is Brit Lewis from Mr Hancock, who talks about Trade-Offs and how an understanding of scarcity can help us grasp the number of possibilities around us. We then have a breakdown from Study.com which explains choice, Opportunity Cost definition and real-world examples demonstrating how every choice has a value.

Our recommended reading list and downloadable frameworks are available to help you go even deeper into the topic, so you can start adopting the practice of prototyping today:

What key lesson are you taking from this Master Series show? Get in touch and let us know!

New Episode: Ken Blanchard: New - The One Minute Manager

New Episode: Ken Blanchard: New - The One Minute Manager

For decades, Ken Blanchard's; The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.

Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have updated The One Minute Manager to introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.

As compelling today as it was thirty years ago, this classic parable of a young man looking for an effective manager is more relevant and useful than ever.

New Episode: Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

New Episode: Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande is a renowned American surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: The Checklist Manifesto, was Gawande's third book, released in 2009. It discusses the importance of organization and preplanning (such as thorough checklists) in both medicine and the larger world. The Checklist Manifesto reached the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in 2010.

He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards.

New Episode: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus - How to Work Less to Achieve More

New Episode: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus - How to Work Less to Achieve More

Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life.

In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatter focus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.

New Episode: David Allen: Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity

New Episode: David Allen: Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity

Discover David Allen's powerful methods for stress-free performance at work and in life. Allen's premise is simple - our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. From core principles to proven tricks.

Getting Things Done will teach you to - Apply the 'do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it' rule to get your in-box empty Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations Plan and unstick projects Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed Feel fine about what you're not doing.

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