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You don't have to lose out on benefits when you become a freelancer. That's the mission behind Be Gig. Listen to my conversation with Shresth, founder of @Begig17:

Increase your chance of success by taking many shots at your goal. Don't give up after a single shot at your heart's desire. #visualthinking #visuals

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. Because the more money and technology that is available to create a work, the less imagination there will be in it. - Alan Moore

Your startup will work because it solves the real pain points of your customers.

Learn from people few steps ahead. This is what @rishabh_grg, @singhtechnical and I discuss almost all the time we speak on this topic

Calculus and Probability are two major streams in Mathematics. Calculus is precise, and Probability is approximate. In life probability is more useful than calculus for most

Future of jobs is partnership of experts. It is going to be soloprenuers coming together for fun and profit. Listen to my conversation with Shresth, founder of @Begig17:

What I'm interested now-a-days: • Business (the tension between strategy & execution + experience) • Technology (evolutionary designs + tech for meeting biz goals) • Story telling (all forms of media)

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! - Maya Angelou

Why I started to homeschool my kids. Kids need different kind of learning that what is taught in schools & colleges now.

Hey @aurasky_ : may be next time we talk, we can discuss 👇. I am sure it would be interesting to you.

After reading Marshall's tweet on AG Lafley, I spent the weekend reading through his interviews and writings. A tweet thread about what I understood about strategy. Thanks Marshall for the poke. I am happy about the time I spent on strategy.

James Clear and Scott Adams raised awareness about systems. In the absence of an accompanying outcome, a system is meaningless. You need to combine systems and results to achieve the desired outcome.

If you want to get better at #sketchnoting, here is a help from Google: My son create the video. He is on a path to learn visual learning & sketchnoting. Let me know your comments on the video. Please don't forget to subscribe to his channel

A great leader is invisible. Impact of their work is seen through the team, but the leader is invisible. Superb definition from @lijithomas2020 on leadership. Listen to the full conversation:

Your growth ladder. Most folks go for sales immedately. It is a 3 step process • build your visibility • build relationship • then ask for sale Sales = whatever you want; could be buying your product or service / being a guest on a podcast / job referral #visualthinking

This would be surely interesting. What do you say @xavierroy & @keepkwizing ?

I don't go this deep as @yodelnyc but I do maintain list of people and how they inspired me / helped me / lifted me up / guided me. I read them often to pay it forward. Here are two posts I wrote in this aspect: &

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. — Max Lucade

"SMBC comic @ZachWeiner says we take about 7 years to master a topic. If we start at 11 and live upto 88, then we can master 11 topics. If you follow a good roadmap, you can become a master of multiple domains "

All models are wrong. Some are useful.

Do you review? • what you've done? • where are you on the journey to your goals? • what is working and why? • what doesn't work and why? These questions are important and you should ask them often. I ask them every Sunday. It gives you 52 checkpoints in a year.

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. - Zig Ziglar

We re-started Gravitas WINS book reviews. Thanks Gagan for reviewing the first chapter - Inside Out of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Thank you everyone for joining. We have this every Saturday. Please join us, if you could.

The man with outward courage dares to die. The man with inward courage dares to live. - Lao Tzu

I have read many books on self-improvement. "The Seven Habits" is always up there on the top of the stack. I first read that book 20 years back. "It changed me" is an understatement. It transformed my thinking and thus my life. #7habits

I see this with startup founders looking for investment. They want to drop: we use "microservices" under "kubernetes" so they task the developers (or dev agencies) to use these shiny new things for no biz purposes.

Happiness is: - you should be able to be happy, despite the challenges, despite the situations; - you don’t have a sense of comparison with anybody; - you should be able to control your time Listen to my episode with @PeeKayPedia here: #visualthinking

I have read many books on self-improvement. "The Seven Habits" is always up there on the top of the stack. I first read that book 20 years back. "It changed me" is an understatement. It transformed my thinking and thus my life.

Every Chess Master Was Once A Beginner - Irving Chernev

Four keys to success: Read with comprehension, write with expression, speak with influence, listen with discernment. - Alan Weiss #visualthinking

First we will be best, and then we will be first. ~ Grant Tinker

Luck = Preparation + Opportunity How can you prepare if you don't know what is coming? Want to turn lucky? Think about future. Here in this video, I explain the process I use to think about the future:

Thread of all my visuals 👇

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. —Thomas Sowell

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. - Sam Walton (inspired by @zsviczian: )

As Steven Covey would say, when you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other end too. You reward bigotry and hate, you get disastrous economy too. That has been the history everywhere. Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are just recent examples.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt A mental model I learned from @garyvee is - cloud and dirt, which I teach in @gravitaswins course. Set your vision; then get to work. Don't bother about middle.

Everyday we read, watch, and listen to some of the greatest ideas floating around the Internet. Ideas don't matter, if you don't take action. In the latest episode, I give an example of skill stacking. Where I heard it and how I implemented it.

STAR framework by @khushbooverma_ is a good mental model to answer interview questions. What I ask is: what is that the person is most proud of in the last 3 years in their projects and ask them to explain the reason.

Our mind can store enormous amount of data. But it can hold only few ideas on the top of the mind. Our mind will drift to those ideas when we take a walk or a shower. Listen to this episode to know how you can keep top thing in mind:

Ironically, whatever made you the rock-star developer that you are, is not going to take you a long way when you become a manager. Listen to this podcast interview on the mindset shifts you need when you become a manager:

In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, Apple was making 350 products. He reduced it down to 10 and focused only on them as he believed it's better to have 10 best products rather than 350 mediocre ones. Focus. Focus. Focus.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever you do anything good, you will attract critics. If you listen to every critic, you'll never get to your goals. If you ignore critics, you'll end up in a pit blinded by your biases. Listen to the latest Gravitas WINS podcast episode to know when to listen to critics.

When you become a manager, you need to redefine what success is. Success for you is not the code that you ship; success for you is not the solution or the architecture that you're going to propose. Success is taking ownership of enabling somebody else to grow.

Move forward three things a mile, not hundred things an inch - Alan Weiss

Mistakes are the portals of discovery - James Joyce

Leadership is influence - John C. Maxwell

Converting your brilliant idea into a revenue generating stream is hard. Have a clarity in objective and focus in execution: