Tag: Insights
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When “Very Good” Is Not Enough
At some point I stumbled across Adolf Hitler’s paintings online. Not in a history book. Just… there. Watercolours. Buildings. Streets. Quiet scenes. The uncomfortable question followed immediately:All wrongdoings aside — purely as a painter — was he any good? The honest answer surprised me. Yes. He was good. Technically competent. Solid perspective. Careful execution. His…
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A Cup of Coffee That Shouldn’t Have Existed
Here I am, sipping my morning coffee while watching the new Veritasium video about antimatter. At school I always loved physics. I wasn’t a physicist or a mathematician, but something about it pulled me in. I even sat the physics exam for fun and got admitted to university for applied physics, although I never pulled…
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Defining Values: Version 1
I realised something fundamentally important today about values. I’ve often heard – from people, books, and articles – that we are all driven by our internal values. Our decisions, actions, motives, and even fears stem from within. These values aren’t all equal, either. They form a hierarchy, a kind of internal priority system. Every time…
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Raising the bar
I had a bit of an enlightenment today… While listening to The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett, he shared his approach to identifying underperforming employees and the importance of letting them go. He posed a thought-provoking question: Pick any random employee and imagine if the entire company inherited this person’s qualities – their…