The diagram is everywhere now, four overlapping circles, a small sweet spot in the middle labeled Ikigai, and a promise that if you find where love, skill, world’s-needs, and money all overlap, you’ve found your purpose. I like the diagram. I also think it quietly lies to people, and it’s worth saying how. What the
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I am a firm believer in space and pause – whether in work, in relationship, in friendship or anywhere in between. Pause is powerful. I’ve leaned on it for years without ever having a name for it. And then I came across this in my Organizational Behavior class: “Between stimulus and response there is a
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For most of my life, I treated emotional and emotionally intelligent as the same word wearing two outfits. This was before I had read Daniel Kahneman’s book on emotional intelligence and when it caught everyone’s attention. Someone who cried easily, spoke from the heart, wore their feelings on their sleeve, I through that as a
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I used to assume that the higher someone climbed, the more self-aware they became. It felt logical. You don’t get promoted five times by accident. I assumed that surely somewhere along the way, you learn to read yourself as well, as you read a room. I recently sat with that assumption in ISB’s organizational behavior
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I’ve spent close to twenty years moving between newsrooms, health summits, classrooms, and boardrooms. Different worlds, but same problem kept showing up again and again. Something good gets built everywhere – whether a story inside a newsroom, an educational product, a transformation program, or a new way of doing things. The people who built it
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I love to draw and I love plants. So what happens when you combine both. You get better at making decisions. Yes, sounds funny? I’m talking about decision trees — something I learned about in my very first term at ISB, in a course called Decision Making Under Uncertainty. And once I saw it properly,
Courage shapes our lives in ways we often don’t recognize until we look back. And nowhere is this more true than in the world we navigate every day — at school, at work, in relationships, and within ourselves. In school, I was the silent girl. Hardworking but quiet. Disciplined and obedient. One who never bothered
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