Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Mounica Veggalam
mounicaveggalam.substack.com
Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
usefulfictions.substack.com
Truth-seeker vs. Community seeker distinction as opposed to naming behaviors as rude vs validation-seeking
The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where y
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This is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
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 moreHere are some high-level examples of strategies:
- Tesla: Build a high-priced sports car → Use that revenue to build an affordable car → Use that revenue to build an even more affordable car → While doing so, also provide zero-emission electric power
- Uber: Launch Uber Black → Bring prices down by launching UberX → Bring prices down by launching Uber Po
Lenny Rachitsky • Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task
It seems to me that egos emerge in order to take care of our needs in contexts where we don’t trust the strategy of surrendering to the We. The paradox is that the presence of ego is often one of the main things in the way of the We being able to take care of our needs.
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.
In life design we know that there are countless possibilities but aren’t stymied by that fact. We revel in exploring a few possibilities, then taking action by starting with a choice. Only by taking action can we build our way forward.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Our difficult situations become more hopeful if we recognize that events are never only what is explicitly formed. If we deal with events as having very many more possibili- ties, and if we understand that the possibilities can emerge only gradually as actual events bring new implying, then we may find a few steps that now begin something new.