Futurist Jim Carroll

Motivational speakers? Baahh....

When most people think of motivation, they picture high-energy speakers and fire-walking seminars—that immediate rush that makes you feel invincible.

Here's the reality: That intense, temporary "motivation" is like Chinese food. Exciting and fulfilling in the moment, but an hour later, you're hungry again. It's a fleeting high, not sustained change.

The real game-changer?

Momentum.

Watch this clip where I'm on stage talking about Chinese food!

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Instead of chasing motivational highs, chase speed. Ask yourself these deeper questions:

🔹 What am I doing to align myself with the future?
🔹 How can I become an innovator in my field?
🔹 What actions will I take to shape my future before it shapes me?

This isn't about feelings—it's about deliberate action and conscious choice.
You have a fundamental decision to make: Will you be proactive about your future, or will you simply react to whatever comes your way?

Think of it this way: Motivation is like a powerful gust of wind that pushes your sailboat for a moment. Momentum is the steady current that keeps you moving toward your destination, even when the wind dies down.

Don't wait for motivation to strike. Start building momentum today.

What choices are you making right now to actively shape your future? 

**#Leadership** **#CareerGrowth** **#PersonalDevelopment** **#Innovation** **#Mindset**

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Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦

Feeling stuck? Start with the mess. One of my go-to exercises: say aloud, “I want clarity about [insert issue],” then dump out your handbag. As you sort what to keep or toss, your brain quietly does the same. It’s low-stakes mindfulness, disguised as everyday life. Clarity follows motion. Try it. Still stuck? Click the link to reserve a free clarity call for private coaching:

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#life #coaching #mindset #growth

Kirill Bereznev

Protect your inputs. They shape your inner code.
Every scroll, sound, and signal is a line in your script. Choose consciously.

#inputs #mindset #clarity #discipline #focus
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P.S. Made by a madman — Kirill Bereznev
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Richard Donovan

As a developer, one of the most frustrating things I've encountered is a poor local development experience.

Little things can accumulate into real frustration...

🔴 Your IDE takes 30 seconds longer than it should to open your solution...
🔴 Your solution takes 30 - 60 seconds longer than it should to build...
🔴 Your unit tests take minutes to run rather than seconds...

#developers #coding #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #wellbeing #mindset #mentalhealth

Aneesh Sathe

The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke

This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity. 

On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 .  Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate. 

When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.

From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments.  How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.   

Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see. 

Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.

1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304

2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.

#AgnesCallard #cognitiveBiases #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #decisionMaking #epistemology #evolutionaryPsychology #humanPsychology #identity #introspection #mentalModels #metacognition #mindset #navigation #neuroscience #normativeSelfBlindness #personalDevelopment #philosophy #sensemaking #socraticThinking #spaceAndPlace

Richard Donovan

If you don’t want to end up rewriting your code…

Make sure you understand the problem before you start coding…

🟢 Get familiar with the problem:
Research, ask questions, and make sure you know what the underlying problem is and why it exists…

🟢 Break the problem down:
This gives you more clarity and helps you focus on more manageable chunks without getting overwhelmed….

#developers #coding #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #wellbeing #mindset #mentalhealth

Futurist Jim Carroll

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘌𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺.

I often get asked about the inspiration behind these two books. At its heart, it's a deep dive into a question I've wrestled with for years: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭?

These aren't your typical self-help books. I designed them to be profoundly fun yet powerfully insightful, challenging you to rethink your approach to achievement without getting bogged down in complex theory. They offer a unique perspective on recognizing the often unconscious "gravitational pull of the ordinary" and then, critically, how to break free. They're meant to be revisited, pondered, and used to continuously challenge your own thinking.

They are getting a fantastic reaction from those who have read them!

If you've ever felt stuck, or wondered what's truly possible for you, I invite you to explore the integrated approach these books offer to finding your path forward. After sampling, you can find the full books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or visit the Mediocrity Website for more details.

𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 --> 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲.𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆.𝗷𝗶𝗺𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

**#EmbracingMediocrity** **#EscapingMediocrity** **#PersonalGrowth** **#Achievement** **#Mindset** **#FreeSampler**

Videospielgeschichten

Kann sich noch jemand an meinen Beitrag aus dem Jahr 2022 erinnern? Der Titel lautet: „Irgendwie Bock etwas zu zocken. Aber irgendwie auch nicht.“ Was sich bei mir in dem Bezug getan und wie sich mein Spielverhalten verändert hat, dass schildere ich in diesem Beitrag.

Von Sven Pieloth

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#FOMO #Meinung #Mindset #Problembewältigung #SocialMedia #Sucht #Videospiele

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Videospielgeschichten

Irgendwie Bock etwas zu zocken… Dann mache ich es auch!

Kann sich noch jemand an meinen Beitrag aus dem Jahr 2022 erinnern? Der Titel lautet: „Irgendwie Bock etwas zu zocken. Aber irgendwie auch nicht.“ Was sich bei mir in dem Bezug getan und wie sich mein Spielverhalten verändert hat, dass schildere ich in diesem Beitrag.

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#FOMO #Gaming #Meinung #Mindset #Problembewältigung #SocialMedia #Sucht #Videospiele

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Kirill Bereznev

You Are the Algorithm
Scroll long enough — and you become it.
But what if you became signal instead of noise?
Create. Don’t echo.

#media #mindset #authenticity #selfawareness #philosophy
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P.S. Made by a madman — Kirill Bereznev

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Knowledge Zone

A "#Chimera #Mindset" refers to the tendency to hold onto unrealizable dreams, fantastical notions, or unrealistic aspirations.

It draws inspiration from the concept of a "chimera," a mythical creature composed of various parts.

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

9 #Japanese Practices to #Improve Your Life

"I’ve been using these as reminders and #credos to change my #mindset and help me zoom out in designing and living my life."

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