The topic about which I have changed my mind is about my mindset. I have learnt to adopt an infinite mindset to confidently play the infinite game of life.
As Simon Sinek mentions in The Infinite Game, the game of life as well as business is infinite. Hence adopting an infinite mindset with an abundance mentality is the only solution to stay ahead in the game of life.
This insight inspired from All Marketers are Liars is all around exploding the myth around consumer lies.
As consumers we frequently lie to ourselves. This irrationality has been aptly captured and highlighted by Seth Godin in this book.
The five steps of remarkable marketing adopted by a remarkable marketer has been outlined below.
When I am without a computer, I practice the art of mindfulness. Mindfulness is indeed a habit that helps me focus and improve concentration levels.
As David Rock mentions in his book Your Brain at Work, Mindfulness is the director of the brain and helps us maintain our focus.
Research has proven that being mindful has lot of benefits, the primary of which is that it helps to relieve unnecessary stress by being present. Hence you need to inculcate the art of mindfulness.
Read this wonderful insight on mindfulness, inspired from Your Brain at Work.
https://viewpointsunplugged.com/practice-mindfulness-for-better-problem-solving/
I would like to learn right brain skills to make myself indispensable.
In the age of AI, ML, Robotics learning right brain skills (namely the following 6 skills) is the only way to ensure that our skills remain relevant.
All left brain skills are easy to replicate and automate thus making such skills easy to replace.
These are the 6 top right brain skills to learn and hone. Inspired from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind.
All great marketers craft a compelling story around their products to satisfy consumer wants and not needs.
The irrationality around consumer wants as opposed to rational needs helps in spreading the stories from one consumer to another.
Thus effective storytelling converts consumers and makes a product iconic.
In this age of automation with AI and ML dominating, nurturing of right brain skills is something I want to pay more attention to.
Left Brain skills which have ruled the industrial age are slowly becoming redundant with sophisticated automation techniques and cheap labor now able to replace all such tasks. Hence in order to remain relevant in this modern conceptual age, it is quintessential to develop and nurture right brain skills.
Some curated insights from Daniel Pink’s book, A Whole New mind, highlighting the same aspects has been provided below:
My #1 priority tomorrow as always is to lead with an infinite mindset be it in family or at work.
Be at home or at work I approach leadership like parenting.
In the infinite game of life as well as business our approach as a leader should not change at all. The way we protect our family the same way we should protect our team.
All of this is possible by adopting an abundance mentality and an infinite mindset.
Learn more from these blogs on infinite mindset as well as approaching leadership like parenting.
https://viewpointsunplugged.com/?s=leadership+as+parenting
https://viewpointsunplugged.com/?s=infinite+mindset
Have you ever wondered what makes Starbucks a unique brand, read this insight to know more on the reason.
