Being a leader means setting direction. Setting direction means making decisions. Decision after decision about which way we’re going to go. In every particular situation, we have decision points throughout every day of our lives. And so how do we actually make these decisions? We’re living in a situation where we have limited information. We […]

Character, leadership, decision-making. How do we decide how we want to live, what we want to do, who we want to be? This is the ongoing challenge, that somehow we have to manage ourselves and lead ourselves to set the standards that we want to be the person that we want. One of the things

Whole life perspective: looking at life in this big picture view. What is life overall? What’s it about? Looking at my whole life and sort of imagining it from this perspective, zoomed out. So I look at the idea of zooming in on life. You can zoom in on time, on a specific moment, you’re

Now, once we’ve decided to change, and we’ve accepted it’s possible and are ready to change ourselves, change our lives, then really one of the big questions is how. What exactly is going to change? And that’s where we can look at our values, what we care about, what is important to us. Because any

So over the past year, I’ve been recording videos about all kinds of different topics, and now I’d like to sort of tie them together in some kind of clear way. Because it’s really been an anthology where I just say something different every day. And you know, it might be useful to actually put

Those who know me know that I’m usually happy to share my opinion about something and happy to talk about subjects that I’m interested in. And this channel, I’ve been doing it for many hours of time now, just me talking about life. And of course, as big as life is as a topic, and

One of the things that’s been uncomfortable about making all these videos is that here I am talking and delivering this monologue, but I don’t actually know what I’m talking about. And you know, usually when you’re listening to somebody talk, it’s useful if it’s somebody who actually knows what he’s talking about. Maybe you

You see a lot of people that just don’t think a lot about what is the meaning of life, what’s the point of it all, what’s this all about, how can I live a better life. All these kind of questions that I’m always going on about in this channel, a lot of people don’t

The minimal to-do list: this has been my ideal for some time, but it seems a lot easier said than done, because there’s so many things that just keep coming up that just keep adding to this list of things to do. But I have this vision of a to-do list that is extremely simple,

When it comes to making decisions in life, we can look at it from two different perspectives that are often- they both fit under the category of making decisions, and yet they’re very different. And this is sometimes brought up in the distinction between leadership and management. What is the difference? What is a leader