Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Mounica Veggalam
mounicaveggalam.substack.com
It is accepted wisdom within Silicon Valley that, as Marc Andreessen puts it, “agreeableness is a problem for innovation.” In my own studies of famous technology entrepreneurs, I have found this statement to be true. To build world-changing companies, to have extreme levels of success, does seem to require an extreme personality.
Evan Armstrong • The Right Kind of Asshole
Agreeableness does not build leadership
MSCHF didn’t make any money from the ATM. They never displayed it again. It was seen in person by, at most, a few thousand people. So it might appear to be a dud. But the company derived value from the narrative network effects for the brand. Every person who interacted with the ATM encountered an object that expanded MSCHF’s creative universe. It ... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Blurring the binary categorization of success and failure
@m_ashcroft @Karaminder @adhdjesse you can also be gifted, many things overlap see this venn diagram https://t.co/MPPgTe7La0
okay this is the video that convinced me that I probably have ADHD
I got stuck for a long time because people describe ADHD as 'lots of thoughts at once' — but I don't have lots of thoughts at once
what I do have is lots of 'nonverbal impulses to action', as described here
one hemisphere's idea of truth is likely to be more fruitful than the other's. As we have seen in Part I, the aspect of reality revealed by the left hemisphere must be contextualised by being taken up into the broader, and deeper, overarching vision available to the right hemisphere; alas, when the left hemisphere takes the lead, it leads us astray
... See moreThat's in part because our beliefs about it not only help make the world what it is, but make us who we are.
No single overarching theory of truth can encompass everything we would wish from such a theory, and indeed truth is never finally known; but that does not in any way invalidate the attempt.
-ian mcgilchrist, Matter with things
Stated another way, freedom to win is freedom to get smarter in the sense of a given finite game.
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more
freedom and Living From Possibility
Freedom to win is still within the context of a finite game.
Ambition comes in two forms, one that precedes interest in the subject and one that grows out of it. Most people who do great work have a mix, and the more you have of the former, the harder it will be to decide what to do.
How to do great work, PG
Differentiation occurs by maintaining yourself in the presence of important persons, not by getting away from them. The difference between running away and walking away after you’re “unhooked” is a critical distinction.
(Passionate Marriage pg 64)
Differentiation is the ability to maintain your sense of self when you are emotionally and/or physically close to others— especially as they become increasingly important to you.
Differentiation permits you to maintain your own course when lovers, friends, and family pressure you to agree and con-form. Well-differentiated people can agree without fe
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