The journey from old to new American dream has resulted in the birth of a linchpin.
In his book Linchpin, Seth Godin cites the journey from old to new American dream and how a Linchpin is quintessential for the realization of the new dream.
As we can see, the new American dream demands remarkability and a work of art necessitating the need of a Linchpin.
The five things I am good at are by virtue of reading my top five motivational books, mentioned in UPPER CASE below.
Books we all know are our real friends. These books bear ample testimony to the same.
If there is ONE THING I would like to change about myself it would be adopting an INFINITE MINDSET to play the INFINITE GAME of life.
Simon Sinek has mentioned that life as well as business is an infinite game in his book The Infinite Game.
Adopting an infinite mindset reduces anxiety, keeps us focused and helps us in leading fulfilling lives. The essence of this mindset is to focus on making ourselves a better version by the day without worrying about competition.
There are these FIVE PRINCIPLES needed to adopt an INFINITE MINDSET –
If you want to know the three qualities that make you indispensable, read the below post inspired from Seth Godin’s book Linchpin.
If you are a late riser (OWL) or an early riser (LARK), this insight will tell you which part of the day would be more productive for you. I am a late riser i.e. an OWL. If you already figured out whether you are an OWL or a LARK this insight is for you.
In his book When, Daniel Pink has provided the daily mood pattern for both OWLs and LARKs.
Knowing this daily mood pattern would enable us to do our best during the most productive times of the day.
Acknowledging that certain parts of the day we are meant to be unproductive would make us less anxious.
Anxiety versus Fear which is more harmful? Read this blogpost to know more.
As Seth Godin mentions in Linchpin, fear is our innate instinct and keeps us alive.
Whereas anxiety most of the times is undesirable.
The following insight throws more light on this.
Meat is a great source of protein and I absolutely love it. But again like other things, it has to be taken in right proportion. A good and balanced diet is nothing less than a good doctor.
I love Steve Job’s farewell speech wherein he mentioned DIET as one of the 6 doctors in our life. If you do not have a balanced diet be prepared to have medicine for diet is what he said.
For those of you who want to be enlightened by what he said, please read the post below:
Artists have the ability to conquer the lizard brain & hence if you want to be an artist, you need to learn how to conquer the lizard brain.
The lizard brain we humans inherited from apes, is the source of resistance for out of the box ideas.
Read this insight inspired from Seth Godin’s Linchpin to understand why linchpins conquer their lizard brain and become indispensable
If you are FIT and HEALTHY, if you ALWAYS WEAR an ATTITUDE of OPTIMISM, the clothes you wear wouldn’t matter.
When you are optimistic, life has a strange way of looking after you. This along with being free of anxiety has a huge bearing on health and well being.
Hence as per me if you are fit, healthy and raring to go, your attire will sink in.
To read some very insightful posts on Optimism, please visit the links below:
My mantra on attire is that it should be simple and yet sophisticated like this famous attire of Steve Jobs.
