Tag: innovation
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The Block: The Ultimate Design For A Healing World
“With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine.” -Christopher Miller What I Learned From Playing With Blocks Perhaps the most memorable shared generational memory is of building unique LEGO creations one block at a time. …
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How To Change The World By Unlocking The Invisible
““Leonardo da Vinci, the defining Renaissance man and perhaps the greatest intersectionalist of all times, believed that in order to fully understand something one needed to view it from at least three different perspectives.” –Frans Johansson, Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation What are we trained to ignore? If you want…
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The 3 Biggest Lies + 3 Biggest Secrets About Learning
““We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” — Peter Drucker The Science Of Learning At The World’s Most Innovative University After completing my first year at the world’s most innovative university, I realized that…
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How to Make Feeling Lost Your Superpower
““When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford An Invitation To Feel Lost What people rarely admit on their LinkedIn headline, Instagram story, or in everyday braggadocious small-talk, is that everyone is feeling lost. In my own life it has been…
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How To Create Your Dream Career When It Doesn’t Exist Yet
“Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” — Ralph Ransom Who do you want to be when you grow up? Do you remember being five years old and rattling off the list of different careers you planned to juggle as a grown-up?…
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How To Be Smarter Than 99% Of People
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn How To Be Smarter With One Simple Habit We all want to know how to be smarter, but what if I told you there was a single habit that could give you leverage over the majority of other people in the…
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Cycle Syncing: The Biological Secret That Will 10x Your Productivity
“Don’t think about making women fit the world- think about making the world fit women.” – Gloria Steinem Me Before Cycle Syncing I’m going to be honest with you. For a long time, I thought I was just a lazy person. I would spend at least half the month steeped in a cocktail of anger,…
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Advocacy That Works: 4 Ways To Turn Data Into Impact
“60% of the time it works every time.” -Brian Fantana (Played by Paul Rudd), Anchorman What I learned about data advocacy from Ron Burgundy. It was around Christmas when I sat with my brother in the living room watching Anchorman and laughed over the adventures of Ron Burgundy, the protagonist of the film (played by…
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Materials And Sustainability: Why Sustainability is Easy
“Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It’s not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be.” – Gary Lawrence Sustainability is like math class. Before we talk about materials and sustainability, let’s talk about math. Do you remember that fateful algebra class where the heartbreaking split…
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11 Problems To Solve In FemTech That Will Make You Rich
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein The Invisible Problem To Solve Before we talk about femtech problems to solve, let’s talk about awkward conversations. In my experience, the most effective way to make the average man squirm is to tell him, “I’m on my…