Listening plus action equals connection The first time I met my brother-in-law was at a ceremony celebrating his completion of a 3 year Buddhist retreat, during which time he and 20 other guys lived together in confines no larger than a basketball court. For most of the day I hung back in the shadows and […]
Originally appeared on Hacker Noon Forget what you learned as a kid. If you treat others how you would like to be treated in return, you’re doing it all wrong. That’s flawed thinking and likeable people know it. Likeable people rely on their experience of dealing with people from diverse backgrounds and intuitively flip the […]
Originally appeared on Hacker Noon Last summer while on a business trip to the US, I spent a few days with one of my closest childhood friends who now runs a VC firm in Washington D.C. Not wanting to impede I booked a hotel, however, as we wrapped up dinner on the first night my […]
