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  • RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS to make you INDISPENSABLE.

    RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS to make you INDISPENSABLE.

    Daily writing prompt
    What skill would you like to learn?

    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.

    1. Design
    2. Story
    3. Symphony
    4. Empathy
    5. Play
    6. Meaning
  • Why Great Marketers satisfy Consumer Wants?

    Why Great Marketers satisfy Consumer Wants?

    Satisfying Consumer Wants versus Needs

    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.

  • Nurturing Right Brain Skills

    Nurturing Right Brain Skills

    Daily writing prompt
    What details of your life could you pay more attention to?

    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:

  • Leading with an Infinite Mindset

    Leading with an Infinite Mindset

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?

    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

  • What makes Starbucks a Unique brand?

    What makes Starbucks a Unique brand?

    Starbucks is a unique brand for this reason

    Have you ever wondered what makes Starbucks a unique brand, read this insight to know more on the reason.

  • Our Brain’s Reaction to Integrity

    Our Brain’s Reaction to Integrity

    Brain Loves Integrity

    Explore our brain’s reaction when we exhibit integrity via the following insight inspired from Predictably Irrational.

    Our brain loves the exhibition of integrity and hence this insight should inspire us to show integrity at all times.

  • Why a SELLER values PROPERTY more than BUYER?

    Why a SELLER values PROPERTY more than BUYER?

    Explore the Irrationality around Seller’s Valuation of Property

    To understand the irrationality and understand the reason why a seller values own property more than the buyer, read this insight inspired from Predictably Irrational.

    To read more insights from Predictably Irrational please visit the following link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/?s=predictably+irrational

  • What makes HARD WORK the main weapon in the INFINITE GAME?

    What makes HARD WORK the main weapon in the INFINITE GAME?

    Daily writing prompt
    In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled?

    Hard Work helps me remain focused and keeps me in Flow and thus helps me remain fulfilled in the Infinite Game of Life. Hard work is the main weapon to play the infinite game of life.

    The infinite game of life needs to be played with an infinite mindset.

    To play with an infinite mindset wherein competition is irrelevant we need to make ourselves a better version every day.

    The foundation for all of this is hard work which makes us fill fulfilled and thus remain in flow.

    For more insights from the books Flow and The Infinite Game, please visit the following links:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/?s=infinite+mindset

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/?s=flow

  • Human Drive for Intrinsic Motivation

    Human Drive for Intrinsic Motivation

    Daily writing prompt
    List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.

    If money did not matter I would have pursued a job (s) that would unleash my inner drive for intrinsic motivation.

    Any work environment wherein intrinsic motivation is nurtured is bound to be healthy and filled with creativity.

    Common workplaces wherein money, rewards are used as baits are extrinsically motivated wherein people are pitted against each other. These workplaces are not only toxic but stressful as well.

    I would love to thrive in an intrinsically motivated environment wherein effort and not results would matter.

    For some more insightful materials around intrinsic motivation from Daniel Pink’s Drive, please visit –

  • Irrationality around Keeping all Options Open

    Do you like to keep all options open?

    Human irrationality around the tendency of keeping all options open is indeed illuminating. This quirk has been illustrated via the following insight from Predictably Irrational.

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