In most corporate environments, rationality dominates the conversation. Why is it so? What are we risking by favoring “the Head” and dismissing “the Heart”? How can we design a workplace that welcomes emotion, encourages empathy, and embraces individuality? This newsletter attempts to answer these three questions.

Words. There is nothing better - or at least, more convenient - to communicate, influence, comfort, thank, share knowledge, encourage, negotiate... This newsletter is about words. It starts with tattoos, continues with a bold and frightening thought experiment from Chinese science fiction, and goes on with 3 practical ideas that help handle words with more care and intent, and thus, in a much more powerful way.

The Eye of the Storm is the center and ... the calmest part of it! We may not always find a safe, quiet place amidst the storm if we just look around. But we can always create quiet time and space inside our minds. And this quiet core can help weather the craziest of storms. This week's newsletter goes against any advice on how to do more and faster. Instead, it is about stopping, doing nothing, getting bored, and practicing the art of stillness. Often, all it takes is just 10 mindful minutes.

Does it matter how fast we are going? How can you set yourself a steady pace? What is the difference between speed and velocity and why does direction matter? Why momentum is a far better concept than “potential” when it comes to people development?

How do you know you are doing a good job listening? What do great listeners do that makes us feel so alive and happy in their company? How can music help you become a better listener?

Is complexity bad? | Write boldly even when you’re afraid | When subtraction adds value | How to simplify without dumbing down | Maximize steps not taken

Everyone has superpowers | Three ways to find yours | Two stories of exceptional ballet dancers | Plenty of music videos with the moves that will move you

A fresh look on confidence from Alain De Botton and “The School of Life”: it examines the good and the bad reasons why we may lack it and explores how we can develop more of it in our everyday life. Confidence is a skill and a catalyst for bringing all the good things in us into the world.

This book provides a systematic, step-by-step approach to understanding the most common business communication challenges that arise from cultural differences, and offer steps for dealing with them more effectively.

This book is a wonderful companion for a classical music lover. In a friendly, accessible, yet not over-simplistic way, the author step by step unfolds the fundamentals of the craft of music, so that we can become better listeners. Read this book while actually listening to music - there is a playlist at the end of each chapter.

The motivation for distraction originates within us. Distraction is just another way our brains attempt to deal with pain. Therefore, the only way to handle distraction is by learning to handle discomfort. If distraction costs us time, then time management is pain management.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks. It’s a true superpower of the 21st century, increasingly rare and valuable in a world of work full of shallow busyness and distraction.

You think you are smart. Welcome to the world of self-delusion. The book is a compendium of 48 ways we succumb to self-delusion, every day.

Not everything has to be so hard. “Effortless” is about doing the essential things in the right way.

Once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

What if we could get better at solving the RIGHT problems? The way you frame a problem determines which solutions you come up with. By shifting the way you see the problem - that is, by reframing it - you can sometimes find radically better solutions.

Systems Beat Goals. Energy is Good. Passion is Bullshit. Be Selfish - in the Right Way. Manage Your Odds for Success. See Failure is a Tool, not as an Outcome. Stay in the Game Long Enough. Be Happy.

Learn good decision-making by doing: with a pencil at hand, you can examine your past decisions and develop a better process for the decisions you are facing right now. A gem.

Most of our decisions are bets against all future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.

The unaware life is not worth living. When you change, everything changes.

This book is a powerful reminder of compassion, awareness, and attention.

This book offers you ample opportunities to level up your data storytelling skills.

This book distills everything about storytelling into 10 essential rules. Whether you need to tell a story to a client, a boss, a friend, or a stranger, this book will help you craft it.

Eleven basic principles of Mindful Leadership the most successful NBA coach developed to transform disorganized teams into champions.

You are who you hire. This book made my recruitment process intentional, confident, and fun.

Why checklists work, how to build a good one, and why their implementation encounters so much resistance.

Whenever you feel down or in doubt, the wit, wisdom, and whimsical visuals of this book will give you an immediate boost of energy and optimism.

Our path to success lies in mastering our own minds.

Believe you can succeed and you will.

The 4 behaviors that transform ordinary people into world-class leaders.

We are all far more irrational than we and the standard economic theory would like to believe. What's more, our irrationality is not random and chaotic. It happens in repeatable, predictable patterns which we tend to underestimate or completely ignore

Speak less. Ask more. Ask better questions. Actually listen to answers. And tame your inner Advice Monster. This book unpacks ideas that help us make the most of every conversation and change the way we lead for the better.

While many of us spend too much energy searching for the next great idea, we would be better off by developing the capacity to make ideas happen.

This book is an encouragement to rewire our thinking habits and think a bit differently, a bit harder, a bit more freely.

This little book is full of big ideas. Provocative and challenging.

Discovering how the famous physicist looked at the world might permanently and positively change your own view on life.

In a world where the only certain thing is uncertainty, range - in skills, experiences, way of thinking, openness to new ideas - is the key to adaptability, creative problem solving, and thriving.