Food for thought

 What looks like a talent gap is often a focus gap. The "all-star" is often an average to above-average performer who spends more time working on what is important and less time on distractions. The talent is staying focused Reflection requires stillness. One cost of rushing from thing to thing is that you lose the space to think. Hard work matters, but nonstop motion often hides a quiet truth: you could have used your time better. If you never pause, you confuse activity with effectiveness. Make time to think. Walk outside. Sit quietly. Create space. Then move again, but this time on purpose. You should attempt things that are difficult enough to guarantee some early embarrassment, but important enough that long-term regret is unlikely. Trying something difficult will usually make you look foolish or inexperienced. That’s fine. That's the cost of learning. But if it's important to you, then you'll work through the early failures and — even if things ultimately ch...

 Strengths Rational – People with the INTJ personality type (Architects) pride themselves on the power of their mind. They can reframe nearly any challenge as an opportunity to hone their rational thinking skills and expand their knowledge – and with this mindset, they can devise inventive solutions to even the most arduous of problems. Informed – Few personality types are as devoted as INTJs to developing rational, correct, and evidence-based opinions. Rather than hunches or half-baked assumptions, they base their conclusions on research and analysis. This gives them the conviction that they need to stand up for their ideas, even in the face of disagreement. Independent – For people with this personality type, conformity is more or less synonymous with mediocrity. Creative and self-motivated, INTJs strive to do things their own way. They can imagine few things more frustrating than allowing arbitrary rules or conventions to stand in the way of their success. Moreover, they are hap...

 At some point in life, you embark on a journey of self-discovery. Wonder through thought, articles, and podcasts that give clues on where to find the treasure, a box of idiosyncrasies that make you you. Personality - we all have one. Often visible to the outside world but often blinded to oneself. This journey once led me to 16 personalities. I took a test, and the result was an Architect INTJ personality. Reading the summary of the INTJ profile felt like speaking to someone who has known me my entire life. It was like looking into a mirror. The output described me - 100%. I have been going further the rabbit hole, learning how to interact with other personality types, how to improve my blindspots etc. Architect INTJ In summary here is my personality profile-- and yes I know it describes me: NTJ (Architect) is a personality type with the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging traits. These thoughtful tacticians love perfecting the details of life, applying creativity and ra...

  Why smart INTJ leaders lose good people As an  INTJ (Architect) , you’re an independent and visionary thinker who excels at building systems and solving complex problems. But when you lead people, your brilliance can become a blind spot. The same qualities that make you strategic often make your team feel lost, micromanaged, or dismissed. Here are five challenges INTJ leaders might face   –   see if you recognize yourself. 1. Explaining your vision once and wondering why nobody executes You see the entire strategy in your head – every connection, every logical step. So you lay it out clearly and expect people to run with it. But here’s what often happens: your “clear explanation” skipped three layers of context that feel obvious to you but aren’t obvious to anyone else. What you think is a complete blueprint is actually a sketch that requires people to read your mind. The gap between your clarity and their confusion kills momentum before it starts. 2. Optimizing sy...

 You are richer than 93 percent of people. Not in money, but in time. Over 108 billion people have lived throughout history. 93 percent of them are dead. You have what every king and queen, every pharaoh and ruler, every CEO and celebrity of the past would give all their wealth and power for: Today. You can attract luck simply by telling people what you are working on. To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Mistakes are the portals ...

  Three qualities that have nothing to do with talent or intelligence, but can make a dramatic impact on your results: • Cheerful: You are pleasant to work with and generally raise the energy level  in the room. • Accountable:  You feel personally responsible for what you want to accomplish. It is not someone else's job. It's your job. •  Adaptable.  You can find alternate paths to success. You don't need things to be a certain way to be happy. Start with the best opportunity available to you. If you make the most of what you have in front of you right now, better opportunities will become available as you go along. Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember:  Getting started changes everything Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoidin...