The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World

I believe we can gain insight into what’s happening now by examining the prior waves of disruptive change—the three prior industrial revolutions—each of which has important lessons.

There’s an old saying that “money won’t make you happy.” That’s true, but there’s something else that people don’t talk about enough: Not having enough wealth will make you very unhappy.

Trading in The Currency of Ideas

Why The Thriving Mindset Is Critical To understand The Thriving Mindset and why it’s so critical, we first must understand two different perspectives on today’s world. From one perspective, we’re living in a time of unprecedented opportunity, and there’s evidence that many companies have ridden that wave: innovative new enterprises like Zoom, Netfl

Why does change, uncertainty, and disruption cause some people to break and others to break records? This is a question I’ve been drawn to for most of my life—a question that has become more important than ever before. We’re living through one of the most disruptive periods in human history. We’re witnessing rapid change that’s impacting virtually

A Shrinking World. One additional outcome of mass interconnectivity is that the world’s geographical barriers are disappearing, creating a phenomenon known as “a shrinking world.”

We are now in a world that places less value on sophisticated static skills (the skills that knowledge workers cultivate) and more value on the ability to learn quickly, acquire new knowledge, and deploy that new knowledge in a dynamic environment.

But here’s what Shawn’s mother had missed—and to quote former First Lady, Michelle Obama—“there are many kinds of affirmative action.” There’s the affirmative action of “legacy,” like when colleges give preference to the children or grandchildren of alumni. At Harvard University, for example, the admission rate for legacy applicants is 33% versus t

Financial shame: The reason that conflating net-worth with self-worth is so destructive is that it almost always leads to financial shame, and shame is unhealthy.