In a revealing episode of the Future Squared podcast, Taryn Williams, a seasoned entrepreneur and the force behind multiple successful ventures, shared insights from her 20-year journey in business.

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Optimism — a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that outcomes will be positive.If it weren’t for optimism, many of our greatest achievements would not have come to fruition.As Nietzsche said, us humans like to fool ourselves in order to orient towards the future.If we weren’t optimistic, or at least hopeful that our actions would result in positive outcomes, then we’d find it might difficult to get out of bed in the morning.

If you’re the type of leader who likes to micro-manage, oversee every action your employees take and ensure that they have no autonomy or sense of control, then you’re probably feeling a little disoriented by having everybody work from home as a result of your ‘COVID-19 policy’ being activated.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with James Clear, author of Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, for an episode of the Future Squared podcast.

COVID-19 is seeing more white collar professionals working from home than ever before, and in many ways it is a long overdue transition, one that required a pandemic to finally stop leaders anchoring to the past.But it might not be such a smooth transition for some, given the numerous distractions at play in our ‘home offices’.

“What stands in the way becomes the way.”Marcus Aurelius’ famous maxim still holds true almost two millennia after he first noted it in his journal.I’ve written and spoken previously about the value of cultivating adversity in your life. Overcoming difficulty is almost a pre-requisite to achieving great things.Whether it’s cold calling, keynote speaking, surfing, or hitting the standup comedy open mic circuit, there are myriad ways I’ve gone about incorporating more adversity into my life.

COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on our world as we know it.

Recently, my company was engaged by a large telecommunications provider to perform an innovation assessment — we were essentially tasked with gaining an appreciation of the organization’s processes, resources and values and forming an opinion as to its innovation readiness.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with marketing luminary, Seth Godin, for an episode of the Future Squared podcast.

Cold calling is dead.Or at least that’s what I was lead to believe — until recently.

I’ve been in a very reflective and existential mood this week, meditating on the nature of life, love and ambition.This reflection was caused by the loss of two giants, both literally and figuratively.First, Clayton Christensen (6’6”), the father of modern disruption, fell victim to cancer at the age of 67.

Andrew Ross is the founder of URBNSURF - Australia’s and the southern hemisphere’s first surf park, which opened its doors to the public in January of 2020 to much fanfare.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) remains to this day one of the most influential thinkers of all time.The German was a philosopher, composer, poet and philologist, who wrote 15 books in the seventeen years between 1872 and 1888, including Beyond Good And Evil, Ecce Homo, the Antichrist, On The Genealogy of Morality, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

I grew up in the working class, western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia— the first-generation son of Eastern European migrants.

One of my favourite thinkers of the modern era would have to be Nassim Nicholas Taleb.Not only has he written several best-selling books on decision-making, randomness and luck, but he, like so many great thinkers from across the ages (from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca during Roman times to Ray Dalio or Ben Horowitz today), is also a practitioner. He spent over twenty years as an options trader and risk analyst, and today has interests in venture capital.

We hear it all the time.Focus.‘You can have anything you want, you just can’t have everything you want.’

I recently wrote that meditation, mindfulness, and movement, while useful life-aids, can serve to do more harm than good if we’re using them as distractions from deeper problems that remain unresolved.Discussing emotional management with a friend over UFC245 on the weekend (as you do!), we hit upon the idea of nuance in emotional regulation.

It is said that the right mentor can help you get further, faster.As Isaac Newton said, “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”.The right mentor can help us to see the forest from the trees, make better decisions and avoid treacherous pitfalls.

Mindfulness is all about bringing our attention on to the present moment, sans judgment, creating the mental space and clarity to voluntarily respond to external stimuli, instead of involuntarily react. This can create the conditions for our navigating more deliberately through the world.

I recently had James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, on my podcast (below) to talk all about — surprise surprise — habit building.‍

Most of us tend to be short-term thinkers, often only seeing and acting on what is just ahead of, or just behind us.This is why we tend to fall victim to instant gratification, at the peril of longer-term outcomes.It’s also why so many people proclaim that the world has never been any worse than it is today, despite the fact that just one hundred years ago, kids worked in coal-mines, and running water, electricity, healthcare, and education were luxuries that only the few could access.

When we embark upon a long, audacious journey, such as building an entrepreneurial venture, our over-arching goal might be several years into the future.

I recently read this article in the Australian Financial Review, and couldn’t help but notice the entitlement and lack of creativity demonstrated by the restauranteur profiled.

Having written an article for Harvard Business Review called The Case For The 6-Hour Workday, I was invited to the Startup Grind APAC 2020 conference to talk on the topic of time-rich entrepreneurship.

Our days consisted of hunting animals, foraging for food, and trying not to get eaten ourselves.Central to the hunter-gatherer survival strategy was mobility, roaming areas of land between seven and 500 square miles. Our tribes, which ranged in size from an extended family to a band of 100 people, were also key to success.

Customized baseball bats, personalized shampoo and dog food formulated for individual dogs — these were just some of the ideas that Netflix co-founder, Marc Randolph, pitched to Reed Hastings, before coming upon the idea that would eventually become the streaming service we all know and love today.

The British physicist and historian, Derek Price, is best remembered for an observation he made, now known as Price’s Law.

Beware of the sage on the stage.I recently attended a business networking event, which reiterated why I normally don’t do such things.

Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, and published his findings in his first work, Cours d’économie politique.Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.But this phenomena doesn’t stop there.‍

When you hear the word rich, what pops into your mind?Private cars, beach houses, yachts, and rounds of golf?

I recently had the pleasure of reading Marc Randolph’s That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

He took his position in front of a brick wall in the backyard.The two pot plants either side of him became our goal, much to the dismay of my mum.And I proceeded to attempt to kick one passed him.

The Stoic philosophers of Ancient Rome were proponents of living in accordance with nature.One might take ‘nature’ to mean many things, and the Stoics have not been without their critics on this point, including Friedrich Nietzsche.

Recently, I found myself reflecting on a handful of books that I had read in the past, and found that I could usually recall one big ideas and several smaller ones.

Katherine Milkman, a behavioral economist at Wharton, coined the term ‘temptation bundling’.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Neil Sahota for an episode of the Future Squared podcast.Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. subject matter expert, professor at UC Irvine.

I’m not a narcissist, nor am I a sociopath.As such, I have insecurities.Most of these insecurities stem from childhood.And like most ‘bad’ things, in small doses, they can be good for us.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with AFL premiership-winning coach and veteran player of 356 games, Paul Roos, to talk all things leadership, team-building, culture change, mindset, and performance, for the Future Squared podcast.

As I write this, my body is in pain.And I love it.

In the 1830s, Charles Babbage pioneered the concept of a programmable computer.One hundred and sixty years later, in 1991, his design was assembled by a museum — and it worked!

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary”.The words of the philosopher, Nassim Taleb, will ring true for any corporate executive who has always yearned for something more, who has always felt the tug of entrepreneurship but has never mustered up the courage to pursue it.

Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ was written in the early 16th Century whilst he was living in exile, as a gift to Lorenzo Medici — defacto ruler of the Florentine republic — arguably as a means to earn his place in society as a statesman again.

The business model of the new economy is characterized by talent and services on demand, automation, and magical user experience. At least, that’s how futurist and veteran of the technology game, Tim O’Reilly, put it in his latest bestseller, WTF: What’s The Future and Why It’s Up To Us.

The spirit of Coolidge’s quote has been echoed time and time again by high performers across many domains on my podcast, whether it was Robert Greene, Michael Shermer, Ryan Serhant, or Georges St Pierre; they all say that resilience is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, factor underpinning success.

I recently read Emeran Mayer’s book, The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health.

“Trust your intuition”. We hear it all the time from self-help gurus who have a tendency to make baseless statements in order to motivate (or rack up Instagram likes), and this one is no different.

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell was an absolutely gripping read about a legendary coach and business executive, whose mentoring of the likes of Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, amongst other tech luminaries, played a major role in the success of their companies.

Ryan Serhant is a co-star on Bravo’s hit show Million Dollar Listing New Yorkand the star of Sell It Like Serhant.

These are the words of an executive from a top ten publishing house. He told me this whilst I was courting publishers for my first ‘real’ book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters. I say ‘real’ because I had self-published two books previously and several e-books… but the credibility and opportunities presented by a legitimate book deal aren’t just in another ballpark when compared with self-publishing, they’re on another planet.

It has never been easier to live alone — the advent of smartphones, social media, Netflix, and videogames, means that we can keep ourselves occupied for hours without the need for face-to-face human interaction — but that doesn’t mean that we’re actually living.

This has been my mantra for several years now, and it has seen me try all manner of things, from rock-climbing and surfing to a barista course and learning the art of whisky making, to jumping out of planes and trying hip-hop yoga. I’ve found that trying new things to get out of your comfort zone helps keep your ego in check, strengthens your relationship with adversity, and above all, increases your appreciation of life

In the wake of the Christchurch shootings and the disturbing video that made the rounds on social media afterward, Australia’s Government expeditiously passed new legislation that puts the onus on tech companies to remove violent material from their platforms or face criminal charges. Violent material extends to terrorist acts, murders, attempted murders, torture, rape or kidnap.

The highly anticipated biopic on the life and times of Mötley Crüe, The Dirt, finally hit screens this week after almost two decades in the making.

Today’s typical workplace is characterized by the sight and sound of desktop and smartphone notifications, keeping executives in a state of hyper-responsiveness that would make Ivan Pavlov proud.

General Stanley McChrystal retired in July 2010 as a four-star general after over 34 years of service in the U.S. Army.

During the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s, significant numbers of workers from across the globe relocated to areas such as Ballarat, Victoria, in which gold had been discovered. With them came an army of vendors selling tools to get the job done; shovels, pickaxes, hammers, chisels, and pans.

Beth Comstock is a change maker who has helped people grapple with rapid-fire change and open up their companies to transformation.

I was lucky enough to join 5,500 other Melbournians at a packed Convention Centre as part of the intellectual rockstar, Jordan Peterson’s, 12 Rules for Life book lecture tour.

A false purpose is defined by author Robert Greene as money, pleasure, attention, power for its own sake or a cause to join. “Many people seek to create purpose and a feeling of transcendence on the cheap, with the least amount of effort. Such people give themselves over to false purposes”.

Ryan Holiday — decorated 31-year-old author of books such as Ego Is The Enemy and The Obstacle Is The Way — got the inside scoop, spending a considerable amount of time with both Thiel, Nick Denton — founder of Gawker Media, and other players on both sides of the conspiracy, distilling his insights and interpretations into his new book, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue. Conspiracy represents a fresh change for Holiday who has made a name for himself by essentially repackaging the works of Stoic philosophers such as Seneca the Younger, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, for a modern audience.

Most people hate long haul flights. I love them. Why? Because until the wifi gets good enough, which I hope it never does, long haul flights are one of the last vestiges of disconnection from the world. While we can indeed partake in a digital detox at ground zero, having no choice but to disconnect while giving those on the outside no way to contact us, is liberating, and allows us to engage in guilt-free ‘me time’.

I recently had the privilege of speaking with New York Times bestselling author, Robert Greene, who you might know as the man behind books such as the 48 Laws of Power, Mastery and the Art of Seduction.

Listen to the likes of leadership coach and retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, and you will be up at the crack of 4:34am, you’ll proceed to splash some cold water on your face and “get after it”, despite every fiber in your body, more likely than not, willing you to go back to sleep.

How does somebody know if they’re ready for entrepreneurship?

I recently caught up with Jason Fried for a conversation about work, life and productivity on the Future Squared podcast.

I cringe when I hear of school debates in which students are directed to argue a position whether or not they, or the facts, support it.

As Warren Buffett put it, “the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with world-renowned music journalist and author Mick Wall for an episode of the Future Squared podcast.

Humans beings are an interesting bunch. What we yearn for one day, we take for granted the next. Over the past one hundred years, we’ve learned to take electricity, running water, healthcare and the fact that we have an abundance of food that comes from all corners of the globe for granted. We have a tendency to normalise any positive experience after repeat exposure to it, eventually nullifying it. We find ourselves bored with what once filled us with joy and seek out longer, more intense experiences, forever ‘chasing the dragon’ and that high of the first time.

Fresh off the back of the success of Sapiens and Homo Deus, Professor Yuval Noah Harari has returned with another book, not quite for the ages, but for the 21st Century. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century cuts through the information overwhelm and muddy waters of the online world and confronts the most urgent questions on today’s global agenda.

As a ten year old, I spent my days watching the heroic feats of Charles Barkley as part of the 1993 Phoenix Suns and then attempting to mimic his heroics on my backyard basketball hoop. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said that I wanted to play in the NBA. Eventually, my lack of height, frequently mistaken for a lack of talent, crashed my hoop dream party.

Oren Klaff is the author of the classic bestseller on the science of persuasion and getting the deal done, Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading and Winning the Deal.

In life, we grow up thinking that the more of a good thing we get, the better. More money, more education, more friends. But too much of a good thing is not only too much, but can actually be bad for us and have debilitating consequences.

In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.

If you’re not familiar with who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the ‘GOAT’, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist.

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Sociobiology examines and explores social behaviour in terms of evolution and draws on a number of disciplines including zoology, archaeology, anthropology, genetics and ethology to form its theories.

One thing we discussed was how oftentimes when we first embark upon something, be it a new romantic relationship, or a new business, our dopamine receptors are super-active. However, over time, they get blunted and require a higher frequency or intensity of exposure to ‘X’; X being an activity, venture, drug, person, achievement — whatever ails you.

The term cargo was first used to describe a range of practices carried out by a group of people that occurs in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced societies.

I’ve long admired Apple for its vision, its focus on customer experience and its design principles, although since Steve Jobs’ passing, this vision appears to be waning. Tim Cook’s leadership is on par with Steve Ballmer’s at Microsoft — more about optimising the share price in the short term. The Apple Watch and more recently, Apple Airpods, to my mind at least — fell way below the mark.

For two hundred years China was considered an economic basket case; its population resigned to a life of poverty among the rice fields.