What Meditation Taught Me About Suffering (And Joy!)
I have been meditating regularly for several years, and while it always helped me relax, focus, and be a bit less reactive in my normal life, I wouldn’t have called it “life-changing” — until one day in March 2020.
Stanford GSB Last Lecture 2024 - How To Live Your Life At Full Power
I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.
What Teaching Taught Me: Lessons From 22 Years At Stanford GSB
I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.
The Wildly Asymmetric Impact of Diet and Nutrition
If you are looking for the smallest and quickest changes you can make to your lifestyle that will yield the largest impact on how you look — and more important, how you feel — you may be well served to focus first on your diet.
Three Principles Of Leadership
I delivered a keynote speech at the 10th Annual Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, about the three principles of leadership and what people typically get wrong.
How a Sleep Specialist Cured My Insomnia — and Cleared Up My Misconceptions About Sleep
I was stuck in a cycle of sleepless nights and tired days, until a sleep specialist taught me the science behind restful sleep, and how to incorporate strong sleep habits into my daily routine.
Three Unexpected Life Lessons Learned at a Taylor Swift Concert
Taylor is an artist, one of the best in the world in her industry, at the very top of her game. I would question how anyone could walk out of the concert not feeling inspired, even a 51-year-old guy working in private equity.
How to Live an Asymmetric Life
I was honored to give a Last Lecture for the Stanford Graduate School of Business Class of 2023. Read on for a summary of the message I shared, or watch the entire lecture video.
Why Greatness Comes From The Bottom Of The Bucket
True greatness comes from the bottom of the bucket and over the years, it has become clear to me that customer acquisition is actually the second most important part of the revenue picture.
Why I Gave Up Drinking Alcohol
Alcohol is so mainstream — and so closely associated with celebration — that we often forget it is a depressant. Read on to understand why l gave up drinking alcohol, and why I’m rarely tempted to drink anymore.
Four Reasons You Likely Won’t Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions (And How to Change That!)
About 90% of people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions. Here are four of the top reasons people fail to keep their resolutions and how to change that.
Five Things I Learned From Posting On TikTok (And Why I Continue to Post)
I’ve learned a lot through my TikTok experience. Read on for my five biggest takeaways.
When My Oldest Child Left for College, I Had to Learn to Let Go.
Some of the most counterintuitive parenting advice is also some of the most valuable.
What I Learned on a Week-Long Meditation Retreat
Do you live in the present? Or is your brain constantly jumping between the past and the future? Mine was. Until I spent a week in a meditation retreat with a spiritual leader who taught me the power of being present. Back at home and work I’ve tried to stop overthinking and to let go.
What Most People Get Wrong About Time Management
We spend our days multitasking, switching tasks, and using valuable energy on invaluable things. What if you could better manage your time to focus on the big, important priorities of your life?
How much of success is determined by luck?
What are your odds of being alive at this exact time in history? How much of success is determined by luck?
Why Your Identity Shapes Your Life (and what to do about it)
When we repeat stories in our subconscious minds, those can become the narratives of our identities. What we often don’t realize is that they are just stories.
The Best (and Worst) Parenting Advice I Ever Received
How one speech became the catalyst that changed the way I parented and how I thought about my relationship with my kids.
I turned 50 today. Here is the most important thing I learned in my first half century.
Time, like the avalanche, stops for no one. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Why Focus is a Superpower (And what is keeping you from harnessing it)
Focus is a superpower. Harnessing our energy on a single goal for a long period of time is THE simplest, most consistent formula for greatness. So why do people have such a hard time with it?