Living with Intensity: A Guide to Self, Relationships, and Society

Life is experienced through different levels of intensity. We can feel it on a roller coaster, when we turn up the volume, or when we have an intense conversation. While 100-meter sprints are short and intense, making our hearts pound and our breathing skyrocket, a marathon is more about sustained effort, a slow burn that tests our patience. Of course, sprints are relative. They could be a spicy meal, a single workout, a month-long intensive course, or a year building something that matters. Intensity is in the concentration of effort, not necessarily the duration. Continue exploring

Problem Finding: How You Can Become Better At It

We go through many years of school solving all sorts of things. Math, for example, is about becoming better at problem solving. Granted, we do depend heavily on our ability to solve problems. But could it be possible to find problems as well? Nobody wants more problems, yet everyone wants opportunities. Could they go hand in hand? How do some entrepreneurs, parents, or teachers manage to find problems and benefit from them? Perhaps work is not exclusively about solving problems but finding them too. And by no means is problem finding about inviting unnecessary conflict. It’s about the creativity of discovering unaddressed problems we’re not consciously aware we have. An unaddressed problem means there’s an unaddressed opportunity, and the potential to generate value.
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