A popular quote by Lao Tzu, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appears. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear," always reminds me about how really instructive it is in order for learning to truly take place.

Leadership has a mentality. Leadership has a thinking. Leadership thinking is influenced by the purpose and thirst to make life better for others. Leadership mentality is empowered by the attitude of results-oriented offerings. As long as leaders do not lose this vision, they stay in the domain of positive impact.

Perhaps, some of us have specific values that we deliberately live by. It is obvious that a vast majority of us do not really have specific values that we operate our lives by. What exactly would a life without specific values or principles be like? That seems quite crucial, indeed.

What happens when creativity meets passion? A combination of creativity and passion is like hot knife through butter, but that's not all. You would still need the bread, the effort and skill to achieve an even spread and some fluid or juice to go with the buttered bread.

What is creativity? Creativity is ideation; the churning out of ideas. Ideas are good but they are not just enough. Why so? You can have a fantastic idea that you cannot get off the ground. What then is the benefit of a good idea without execution?

I read an article written by Michael Simmons, published in medium.com, October 12, 2017, with the title, "5-Hour Rule: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible."

The opening quote was by Charlie Munger, Self-made billionaire and Warren Buffet's long-time business partner. It says, "In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero."

My thought on this very crucial concept is one borne out of sheer experience. I think that much of everything that I have been trying very hard to do in much of my adult life, especially in the last ten to fifteen years has a lot to do with engaging with my faculties with an unassailable drive to unearth what is hidden therein.

For you to do anything or engage in anything whatsoever, you should have a reason for doing so. The reason has to be a compelling one. No matter how insignificant that thing is, whether it involves you and others or not, you should hold your own end well and see that you nurture it to bloom for the purpose for which it has to be done.

I think the problem with us is that we are looking for happiness and peace in all the wrong places. We seek satisfaction where we may never find it because we do not even understand what it is that we truly desire. We misplace one thing for another. When we say we want something we actually mean that we need it and even that thing is mistaken for another thing entirely. It is a problem when we communicate things wrongly, whether to ourselves or to others.

In much dearth and scarcity caused by men through greed and wilful denial working intense squeeze, there is yet abundance way beyond the imagination of the weak mind. When one takes what belongs to more, when we apportion to a few what belongs to many, we do not deal wisely because it shows the vast extent of our poverty. Such a mindset is a most miserable one.

This is inspiration from our experience with a client of Cerebral-Thrust. As a human mind development and business consulting outfit, we provide advisory support services for our clients. Some of these are insights gleaned from research and perceptiveness. The idea is to help them gain clarity as they trudge through the tough minefields of business.