Dr. Daniel Friedland believes asking questions of ourselves is a crucial strategy to living a better life.
He outlines a four-step approach to help cultivate this mindset in his book Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership. “More specifically, these steps cultivate our challenge response to stress, which helps us lean into our circumstances mindfully, with openness and curiosity, and leverage our stress and … continue reading
Turns out that is the wrong question to ask, Dr. Daniel Friedland writes in Leading Well from Within.
Instead, we want to focus on creating the optimal brain conditions so that the answers will find us.
So far this week, we focused on learning to ask the right questions. Step two involves finding more inspiring answers.
“Two factors are key for creating optimal conditions to find answers internally,” … continue reading
1: When Dr. Daniel Friedland would lead workshops, he would ask attendees to close their eyes and pay attention to the feelings in their bodies.
He would then “instruct them to say three firm ‘no’s’ silently in their mind, much like their parents may have told them as a child,” he writes in Leading Well from Within. “I invite them to notice whatever physical sensations, feelings, or thoughts they … continue reading
1: Dr. Daniel Friedland knew he had made a mistake. A big mistake.
He awoke “with the painfully familiar sense of depression,” Danny recalls in Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership. “I believed I’d made a terrible decision.”
Danny was a leading expert on evidence-based medicine (EBM), which had become the “gold standard by which all healthcare decisions are made,” he writes. He … continue reading
Getting better at getting better is what Rise With Drew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we at PCI are doing in our quest to earn a spot on Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Two years ago, I participated in philosopher Brian Johnson’s Heroic Coach Program. The … continue reading
Genius Network founder Joe Polish met the world famous entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson for the first time at a dinner to raise money for Richard’s foundation, Virgin Unite. Joe had donated $15,000 to Richard’s charity. “In exchange, Joe was invited to have dinner with Richard and a small group of other donors,” write Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy in Who Not How.
During the dinner, the other donors were … continue reading
Like most entrepreneurs, Carl Castledine worked crazy hours.
“By sheer grit and willpower, he was able to build up a decent clientele,” write Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy in Who Not How. Still, Carl knew his company, Away Resorts, could do better. Specifically, he needed to improve the company’s website and online presence.
So, Carl went to work. “On top of the ridiculous hours he was already working, he began … continue reading
Dr. Benjamin Hardy was about to launch his first book, Willpower Doesn’t Work.
“I did everything by myself. I scheduled all my media and podcasts. I worked directly with the publisher,” he recalls in Who Not How. “And after lining everything up, which involved a lot of decision-making and mental labor, not to mention time, I then had to muster the energy to show up to the interviews … continue reading
There are technical problems and adaptive problems, author and entrepreneur Dean Jackson believes.
“Technical problems are when the answer is already known,” he shares with Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy in Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork.
Let’s say we want to set up a WordPress website. That is an example of a technical problem. For these types of challenges, we want to ask ourselves: … continue reading
1: There is a big difference between perfectionism and optimizing.
Perfection is a distant star we can never reach. After all, there are no perfect human beings. We are, in fact, perfectly imperfect.
Two years ago, I had the opportunity to take Philosopher Brian Johnson’s year-long Heroic Coach program, which focuses on Optimizing.
The person who is mistake-free is sitting around doing nothing, Brian tells us.
As professional optimizers, we accept … continue reading
