“One of the signs of someone who was wise is that they disseminate responsibility,” the late actor Chadwick Bosman told Trevor Noah on The Daily Show: “They use everybody’s skills, they don’t try to do everything. You can’t be everywhere at one time.” He was speaking about his role in…

Imagine you’re having a dinner party for a few friends. If a mouse were to suddenly scurry across the floor, it’d probably cause surprise and some discomfort (maybe some panicked screams if there are rodent-phobic guests 🙋🏻‍♀️). But you could address the situation quickly, and the impact on the meal…

There’s so much pressure in our work lives to get it right: It just doesn’t feel safe to experiment with new ways of being and interacting. So even when a situation isn’t working, we default to the same coping strategies. They may not be effective, but they feel familiar. 🤷🏼‍♀️ …

In 2016, Mubhij Ahmad and Timothy Day were finishing their graduate studies at UC Berkeley and struggling to get resources to support early validation of their work: developing a novel treatment for colon cancer and other diseases that could deliver gene therapy via a pill. At the time, Patrick Scaglia…

There’s something I often advise my founder clients to do when they’re fund-raising: Include a slide with a list of “Reasons Why You Might Not Want To Invest.” VC Harry Stebbings gives the same advice and yet, in thousands of pitches, he’s seen very few founders actually do it.

Back in 2014, Odell Beckham Jr made one of the greatest catches in NFL history. The commentators and crowd alike went wild at this incredible feat of athleticism. But gifted as Beckham is, it didn’t just happen out of the blue. He had actually been practicing this specific catch.

A doctor friend of mine once had a serious disagreement with a partner in his radiology practice. 👆🏻 My friend thought they should be specialists. 👇🏻 His partner thought they should be generalists. They couldn’t resolve the conflict and, eventually, it split up the partnership. Years later, the two ran…

As human beings, we’re prone to “change blindness.” That’s when there’s a change in our environment and we don’t notice it. Even a major change right in front of us. In one study, over half of the people who were asked directions on the street didn’t notice when the person…

I started studying piano at the age of five. Since then, I’ve taken hundreds of lessons and performed in dozens of master classes. So I’ve gotten all different kinds of feedback. Often, it wasn’t helpful and sometimes it was downright demotivating. Like the professor at Juilliard who told me: “You…