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April showers → rooftop harvest 🌱 Figs. Heirloom tomatoes. Peppers. Eggplant. Zucchini. Berries + herbs loading… And part of our Co-CEOs @charlieykim @MeghanMess daily rituals—part growing, part thinking 🧠🌿 #RooftopFarm #NYC #HumanPerformance #FoodforThinking

Why coaches stop giving you feedback and the simplest tip to get more of their help and time…do something with the feedback. Prove that the very next day you’re working on it. Show improvement over time with consistency. 💪

@charlieykim a pleasure to collab with @WeillCornell @cornell_at5238 for March First Thursday and the AI Health Hackathon!

A recap of what we did in the month of March with our growing @nextjump community. Those with a tribe, a community will beat out anyone without. In a digital, growing AI fakes and slop world, IRL and community matter even more. We are just beginning… ☠️

What do YOU want to do? This week? Tomorrow? The day after? The week after? Not just the answer— can you stick with it when it gets hard? Most people don’t. They move on and hope the “next thing” will be easier. Draft. Adjust. Iterate. #leadership #discipline #consistency #growth

Hot Take: Psychological safety isn't given to you — it's something YOU create for others. Most people wait for their organization to provide it. But the real shift is when you realize that building safety for the people around you is what unlocks your own growth. In this episode: why we've got psychological safety backwards, how we've become addicted to low agency (all the subtle ways you've trained your brain to hesitate), + the root cause of why you keep stalling — or chasing something easier. 05:16 High Agency in the AI-Era (our addiction to low agency) 08:32 Performance = Potential – Impediments 12:55 The Fallacy of Psychological Safety 21:18 Who We’ve Learned From 24:15 Thousands of Ways it Can Go Wrong 29:57 People Are Wired to Do the Right Thing 36:39 Comforting Lies vs Unpleasant Truths 40:16 Learning in Public 46:25 Your Job is to Create Psychological Safety Yourself 51:46 The Therapy Debate—is it helping? 57:09 Discomfort Means You’re on the Verge of Change 1:02:21 Q&A 1:10:03 The Relationship for Feedback #Feedback #Growth #PersonalDevelopment #Performance #PsychologicalSafety

While most people possess the "will to win," the rarest and most important trait is the will to PREPARE to win through constant practice. Winning in a "new world" of chronic uncertainty requires moving beyond mere willpower to a state of being psychologically active, where you intentionally train to handle unpredictable stress. This episode breaks down the difference between defense (not losing) and offense (actually winning), why "average" is now a liability in the AI era, and the training protocol that builds the skill of preparation (to WIN). 03:43 The New Norm – it’s the opposite from your default thinking and why we keep applying the wrong skills & strategies 09:15 The Art of Learning: Addressing Thematic Mistakes 22:40 The Self Drive to Win, Create, Invent 25:43 Get the Emotion Right (to Win) 47:34 Mental Side Effects of Chronic Uncertainty and Unpredictable Stress 1:03:44 Most Valuable: Someone Who Knows What THEY Want To Do 1:05:59 Why People Keep Losing (in age of AI) 1:07:10 The Old Way vs New Way to Work 1:23:08 Q&A #FutureofWork #Skills #LeadershipDevelopment

New Episode Drop: Precision UN-Learning In this episode, we explore how to navigate a world where school, work, and human connection feel increasingly broken — and offer a bold blueprint for leadership in the age of AI. We examine why the old industrial-age playbook of following rules and waiting to be chosen is failing, and how a new model — Human-Machine-Community (HMC) — is emerging to replace it. At the heart of the conversation is "precision unlearning": identifying the mental habits that block growth, tracing them to their roots in fear and ego. 07:20 Why it’s important to “Touch the Mission” 14:28 Updated framework for human high performance, “PEMSS” 21:25 Strategic sequence of Human + Machine + Community 33:54 Real world “contact sports” view, Hackathons, Rituals & Community 46:10 New skills—explore, build and execute fast + “Mogging” 55:29 Power in the speed of reflection & notion of repeated thematic mistakes 58:23 Thesis to fix work & schools (Part 1) 1:07:18 Bigger Picture: The Problem 1:10:51 Bigger Picture: Thesis on How to Fix 1:19:56 Starting with WHO, “Mission First, People Always,” Fear and Ego 1:24:53 How to Train: Speed then Content, Fear Tolerance 1:35:27 How to Train: Authenticity 1:39:16 Coaching: Old Care vs New Care 1:47:15 QA: Are our kids getting less intelligent? #Education #Leadership #Mogging #CommunityBuilding

Most people avoid discomfort to reduce suffering—but that avoidance is what creates perpetual suffering. Understanding the root of your pain is the hardest work, but it's what unlocks elite performance. (Timestamps👇) In this episode of Leadership in Practice (272), we discuss: -Why avoiding uncomfortable feelings (shame, guilt, embarrassment) creates "mental splinters" —perpetuating worse, long-term pain -The difference between experiencing ordinary suffering and doing the harder work of understanding the root -How to build the discipline to expose your patterns to a Training Partner + clean the system that clouds your judgment 4:41 Playfulness & Performance—Winter Olympics 14:15 The three types of suffering 19:08 Recap of Ep 271 The Human Revolution vs The AI Revolution 27:40 Metacognition & Understanding Suffering 32:31 Psychology of When Fear Hits 49:42 Market Datapoint #1: Trying to predict is more and more useless 59:04 Market Datapoint #2: With AI, things that make us human become more important 1:09:49 Market Datapoint #3: Mental laziness (malaisy) 1:13:38 Market Datapoint #4: “Embrace the suck” 1:27:15 “Mental Splinters” 1:45:42 Q&A #leadershipinpractice #performance #judgement #psychology #LeadershipDevelopment

Leadership in Practice Ep 271 | The Human Revolution vs The AI Revolution (timestamps👇) In this episode we discuss: • AI is coming for jobs, but that's not the problem— most people haven't developed the Human Skills that matter to succeed in this new economy. • Elite performance doesn't come from going solo or building massive teams—it comes from the synergy of two people working to refine their thinking. • The foundation for continuous innovation isn't creativity or inspiration—it's self-driven rigor & discipline. 2:45 Recap of EP 270 Conflict vs. Choice 7:20 Power of Teams of 2 (Training Partners “TP”) 13:11 Tools to Combat Negative Spiraling 13:58 Market Datapoint #1: Two Sides of the Human Brain 15:15 Flaws in Traditional Education 20:33 Unlearning: Your Mental Immune System 22:28 Are You Mind Aware? 27:30 Market Datapoint #2: Is AI Coming for Us? 33:08 The K-Shaped Economy in the Labor Market 34:35 The Foundation for High Agency & Innovation 40:47 Market Datapoint #3: LIVE Example (Olivia) 45:43 What are the skills of the Human Revolution? 56:24 Overemphasis on “The Idea” 1:02:00 85% of the Solution on Self & Team 1:10:38 Neuroscience + Mechanics of Rumination 1:18:59 Q&A: TP Compatibility + Inviting Coaching 1:31:51 Virtue of Self-Discipline 1:33:28 AI + Bias of Data (predicting the future to be exactly like the past) 1:37:01 Playfulness : Resilience in Difficulty 1:43:32 How do I find room for training? #LeadershipDevelopment #habits #AI

Since March 2020, we’ve been investing every week to build a community of people (all over the world), learning/ sharing/ discussing leadership (in practice). Come join us Thursdays 11AM ET online via zoom or in-person if in NYC! nextjump.com/lip Each draws directly from real-world experience from that week and ends in open discussion. #LeadershipinPractice #Community #Unlearning #Learning #Development

Amazing First Thursday with 4 experts teaching our community skills to make more and better human connections. 🙏 Thank you to: 1/ Rowshanak @accesstothepath 2/ Daniel @dastillman 3/ JC @JCCassis 4/ Amy (billionaire match maker)

Leadership in Practice Ep 270 | Conflict vs. Choice (how we unintentionally choose conflict) In this episode we'll talk about: • How simply noticing what's happening & slowing down—actually gives you more options, not fewer (this is the 80% of the solution most people skip) • Why making a top-down commitment to "make it work" beats endlessly weighing every pro & con • The difference between weighing logic vs. emotions, + what elite collaboration looks like today 1:36 Conflict vs Choice 6:50 Recap Ep 268: Awareness without Shame 15:42 Market Datapoint #1: Uncertainty = Cortisol 18:48 Market Datapoint #2: Awareness = 80% of the Solution 28:58 Market Datapoint #3: Decision-Making (logical) vs Judgement (visceral) 32:31 Market Datapoint #4: Judgement = Authentic 37:31 Market Datapoint #5: Old Teaming 43:16 How We Unintentionally Choose Conflict 53:16 How “Maybe” Injects Cortisol & Additional Stress 58:11 The Nuance of the Stockdale Paradox 1:05:20 Logical Weighting vs Emotional Weighting 1:07:51 “Cinch” Your Bad Mental Habits 1:14:04 Our Automatic Mental Immune System 1:18:01 Gratitude as a Counterweight 1:23:09 Q&A: Progress vs Perfectionism 1:26:17 Integrating Human Judgment & AI 1:32:15 The Skill of Slowing Down 1:35:29 Repping Your Own Truth/Judgement 1:41:37 What Prevents Human Adaptation? 1:47:03 The Magnitude of Recent Organizational & Market Change #leadership #awareness #conflict #habits

BREAKING: Sharing an update from a feature article published today– please read and share as it includes many links to actual evidence that is now public (including actual emails) military.com/daily-news/202…

Amazing First Thursday event (b/c July 4, moved to wed July 10): LFNO (learning from number ones): guest speaker: @mindygrossman, one of the most successful leaders in the world. Plus tequila class by @DafnaMizrahi Founder of @CuramiaT. Also our Michelin star’d chef coalition.