Welcome to “Brief Insights,” your go-to spot for quick reads designed to enrich your day in just five minutes. Each article here serves as a stepping stone towards deeper reflection and understanding, covering topics from happiness and life lessons to financial wisdom and stoic principles, all with a subtle nod to the realm of information technology.
Dive into these short pieces to ignite your curiosity and foster mindful fortitude, wherever you are, whenever you have a moment to spare.
I appreciate some of these areas are very closely linked but i have tried to group them as well as possible.
Financial and Career Growth
- Reframing Failure: Lessons in Resilience and Growth
- Igniting Ambition: The Fire-Building Analogy for Decision-Making in Life and Career
- Crafting Your Career: Finding the Perfect Analogue for Growth
- Navigating Life and Career: The Odyssey of Wayfinding
- Sharpen Your Sword: Navigating the Battlefield of Careers and Jobs
- Reflecting on the Importance of Money: Does It Truly Bring Happiness?
- Why your first $100k is the MAGICAL number for generating REAL WEALTH
- The Mindset To Radically Change Your Software Engineering Career
Innovation and Creativity
- Unleashing Creativity: The Power of Sandpits in Testing and Developing Ideas
- Unleashing Creativity: Innovative Approaches to Spark Your Imagination
- Level Up Your Productivity: How to Gamify Your Day
Leadership and Management
- Creating a Pocket of Magic: How to Spark Change in Your Team and Environment
- The Art of Giving Feedback: Tailoring Your Approach for Different Roles
- The Enron Scandal: Lessons in Leadership and Corporate Culture
- Why Leaders should eat last
- Impact Code
- The One-Minute Manager
Learning and Knowledge
- Dr Chris Van Tulleken: Why We Crave Junk Food and How to Stop
- Drops of Water Form an Ocean: The Power of Incremental Learning in Knowledge Building and Life Skills
- Embracing Shoshin: The Power of a Beginner’s Mind in Innovation and Collaboration
- Life Lessons from the Aviation Industry -Maximizing Auto-Pilot in Our Lives
- Dig the Well Before You’re Thirsty: A Tech Parable for Proactive Planning
- Life Lessons Resilience in the World of Golf – A Look at Tiger Woods
- Life Lessons – practise a growth mindset
- Life Lessons from Athletes: Applying the Discipline of Sports to Everyday Life
- Atomic habits – Book Review
- Happiness Advantage Book Review
Life Philosophy and Lessons
- Embracing the Grind: How Obstacles Forge Our Greatest Strengths
- Building the Muscle of Self-Discipline: Strategies for Strengthening Your Willpower
- Learn from Religion – The Essence and Joy of Shabbat: A Time of Rest and Reflection
- The Cog That Turns the Wheel: Recognizing Your Role and Enhancing Your Value
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect: A Parable of the Mountain of Knowledge
- Present Day Bias: Navigating the Waters of Contemporary Judgments
- The Ripple Effect of Small Good Deeds: How Tiny Acts of Kindness Transform the World
- Practical Ways to Practice Stoicism in Daily Life
- Life Lessons – Embracing Small Changes: Insights from ‘The Kaizen Way’Life Lessons
- Understanding Life’s Final Reflections: Insights from ‘The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying’
- Unveiling Modern Wisdom: Lessons from Maslow’s Timeless Pyramid
Mental and Emotional Well-Being
- 10 Easy Ways to Boost Your Health and Wellbeing While Working from Home
- The Mindful Clear-Out: How Decluttering Can Boost Your Mental Health
- Anchor Like a Tree: The Balance of Light and Rain
- The Double-Edged Sword of Emotion: Understanding Our Ultimate Weakness
- Embracing Stoicism: Navigating the Waves of Negativity
- Embracing Stoicism: 10 Timeless Principles for Modern Living
- Navigating the Hedonic Treadmill: Finding Lasting Happiness in a World of Constant Change
- The Importance of Smiling: A Simple Gesture with Profound Impact
Mindfulness and Inner Peace
- Don’t Let a Surge of Emotion Cause a Negative Spiral: Avoid the Domino Effect
- Don’t Be Sad, Annoyed, or Envious of Others: Focus and Concentrate on You
- Cultivating Success: The Gardener’s Approach to Life, Career, and Finance
- Navigating Life’s Labyrinth: The Maze Analogy for Decision-Making in Modern Careers
- Comparison Is the Enemy of Happiness: How to Break Free from the Comparison Trap
- Embracing the Wisdom of Lao Tzu: Timeless Lessons and Quotes for Modern Living
- Reflecting on Your Journey: A Guide to Celebrating Your Achievements
- Two monks and a Woman — Zen story
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- The Transformative Power of Adversity: Understanding the Wisdom of “No Mud, No Lotus”
- You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants
- 5 Ways of Well-Being
- Recharge Your Routine: Viewing Each Day as a Battery
- The Planning Fallacy
- The subtle art of not giving a fuck
- The Art of thinking clearly
- Different perspectives for problem-solving and decision-making
Personal Development and self-improvement
- Perception: Adjusting Our Lens on Reality
- Tune-Up Your Life: The Importance of Regular Self Check in’s.
- Transforming Your Mindset: From Obligation to Opportunity
- Time for a new Job?
- Embracing the Unknown: A Journey of Self-Improvement and Perspective
- Embracing Lifelong Learning in the Digital Era
- When Life Gets Hard: 12 Stoic Lessons To Change Your Life Before 2024
- Being So Good They Cannot Ignore You: Mastering Your Journey
Work and Productivity
- Make Work Enjoyable: A Path to Fulfillment and Success
- Making Every Second Count: Treating Time Like a Non-Renewable Resource
- How to Win the Day: A Comprehensive Guide
- Just One Thing – with Michael Mosley & Dr Rangan Chatterjee.
- The One thing
- Five Key Strategies for Kick-Starting Your Workday with Focus
- Time: Our Most Precious Non-Renewable Resource
- How to Use Your Energy Wisely Throughout the Day: A Battery Analogy
- Revitalize Your Workday: – Mentally Unstick Yourself During the Day: The Power of a 5-Minute Happiness Burst
- Embracing the ‘Just Do It’ Mentality for Daily Motivation
- Revitalize Your Workday: Creating Routines
- Revitalize Your Workday: Make the most of meetings
- Revitalize Your Workday: The 3 W’s of a 5-Minute Break
- Time Blocking