The children’s book The Color Monster features a hot mess of a protagonist. The monster’s emotional wires are criss-crossed, preventing him from seeing or thinking clearly. His internal state of mind is a flummoxed combo of red (anger), green (calm), blue (sadness), yellow (happiness), and grey (fear), obfuscating his daily reality. But as he starts …
Warren Buffet knows how much money his kids should inherit: “Enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” That amount, $2 Bn – each! While the number is incomprehensible, it’s great that he has a framework. Yet most entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers and other …
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April Rinne cannot be described with simple labels. She helps companies, policy makers, and non-profits navigate the new economy. She’s a global citizen, having visited over 100 countries in her lifetime and is a “career portfolioist.” And while she works for herself, don’t for a second think that this limits the scope of her work: she’s …
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The “firstest” of all first world problems is being anxious about having too much to read. The most audacious humblebrag has got to be: My voracious curiosity is sooooo stressful. (And it’s not lost upon me that there’s traces – or gobs – of this in all things Rad.) This tragic affliction is exponentially exacerbated by the digitization of the universe. …
Ever since I was a kid, I knew that death scared me. Losing loved ones, the physical pain and the infinite nature of time. Like any fear, the more you avoid it, the bigger it gets in your mind. In my mid-30s, I started to inquire about it with some amazing teachers. Here are some …
There seems to be a running joke about me that I’m not privy to. I was asked to speak at a conference about “retiring in your 30s “(and when I left BlackRock, eFinancialNews wrote this about me). Yes, like a retiree, I’ve had to tap into my savings. Yes, I’ve blurred the lines around “work,” …
A group of us at work got together and started a Slack channel called #death. For the uninitiated (to Slack, that is) you can think about it as a running AOL Instant Messenger chat where likeminded aficionados meet to noodle on this topic. A quick glance in the channel shows topics such as “What happens …
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Habits are the shit. Habit formation is the silver bullet to hacking and honoring your New Year’s resolutions. The productivity porn stories will tell you to wake up earlier (but isn’t that just doing more work?) or to develop incredible stores of willpower or to delete social media apps. These are just band-aids. Habit formation …
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Andrew Taggart is a practical philosopher who works with executives and entrepreneurs. He challenges them to investigate life’s basic assumptions, even if it’s uncomfortable. We discuss high performers’ antagonistic relationship with time and their desire to turn life into a series of problems which can be resolved — and how this can mask our disorienting relationship with mortality. Instead of avoiding these question, we consider how “an examined life is a life lived more fully.”
I often get asked the questions: What is a life coach? What does life coaching consist of? Does it work? Meet my coach, Kate Bednarski, hands down one of the most impactful people in my life. I’ve asked Kate to throw out all patient confidentiality constraints and crack open all of her notes from our coaching sessions.
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