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Human Performance

The One Book That Changed My Life - Poor Charlie’s Almanack

What if life came with a manual? An exact guide to everything you need to know about health, wealth, love, and happiness. Well in today's article I'm going to dive into one of my favourite books and try and summarise the key learning points from all 532 pages.

Productivity

Can The RAY-BAN STORIES WAYFARER Glasses Be Used For Notetaking? Review

I'm going to take a look at the Ray-Ban Stories Wayfarer glasses and see if they can help take notes and learn more efficiently.

Human Performance

What are Your Weaknesses? - How To Answer to This Interview Question - Interview Series

I'm going to show you how to answer the question "What are your weaknesses" in a way that will score you the most points at interview and I'm also going to give you an example script and template to help you get hired.

Learning

How to Study 80+ Hours a Week and Not Burn Out

I'm going to give you my 7 top tips to help you get the most out of your time studying and maximise your knowledge gain and retention without burning out.

Human Performance

Tell Me About Yourself - A Good Answer to This Interview Question - Interview Series

"Tell me about yourself" is a broad question and often asked early in the interview. It's therefore essential to knock it out of the park and start the interview on the right note.

Learning

How To Study For Exams - A Practical Guide Using Active Recall

Want to crush that exam or test you have coming up and get the best grades possible without pulling all nighters? I'm going to give you a practical plan and strategy that I used in medical school and when training as a surgeon to nail your exam preparation and study efficiently and effectively.

Human Performance

The 9 BEST Interview Tips To CRUSH Any Job Interview - Get The Job You Want

So you've got an interview, congratulations! To help you get hired I'm going to give you some actionable interview tips in this first article in my data-driven interview series.

Entrepreneur

The VOS²: Motivate Your Team and Align Your People

Virti's VOS2 alignment process is critical to creating strategic alignment across the company. Here is a look at how it works to help you align your company goals across your workforce.

Entrepreneur

How To Set Your Goals Like Google Using OKRs - Measure What Matters

When scaling businesses I've used lots of frameworks to help align people and track goals and in this video I'm going to look at one specific framework made popular by Google called Objectives and Key Results or OKRs.

Productivity

How To Improve Your Focus and Productivity With Mindfulness and LoFi Music

In this article I look at the science behind mindfulness and Lo-Fi music and how they can help you to stay focused amongst a sea of distractions and give you three strategies be more productive and reduce procrastination using mindfulness and LoFi music.

Learning

How To Remember Everything You Read - 8 Life Hacks To Never Forget A Book

Here are 8 life hacks that I use to remember everything that I read so you can apply the principles from books into your own life more effectively.

Productivity

Top 10 Time Management Tips - How To Manage Your Time And Remain Focused

Here are my top 10 time management tips that help me manage my time as a surgeon and entrepreneur and get the most out of my day when there can seem like an unending amount of work to do.

Human Performance

How To Read A Book A Day - 8 Tips To Help You Read More Effectively

Want to be a better reader? Bill Gates the former CEO of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the world said that he reads about 50 books a year. Here are eight tips that I find helpful for reading more effectively and consistently.

Learning

9 Top Tips To Learn Effectively - How To Learn Anything Lightning Fast

In this article in my evidence-based learning series I'm going to give you nine practical tips to help you learn anything faster and more effectively.

Entrepreneur

How To Delegate Effectively Like A CEO And Achieve More In Less Time

In this article I dive into how I effectively delegate tasks as a CEO and also draw on my experience as a doctor and from running a company in my spare time around my medical training where I made some mistakes in delegating tasks and learned some important lessons.

Human Performance

How I Reliably Hit All My Goals Using The Perfect Productivity Process

In this article I breakdown the system that I use when undertaking any project or aiming for any goal that ensures success almost all of the time.

Entrepreneur

How I Raised A $10 Series A (Deck and Process)

In this post I breakdown how I raised $10M for my company Virti and share our pitch deck and investment process to help you do the same.

Learning

Game Design For Learning

Would you rather be playing a video game than learning and studying? In this article we look at how you can employ game design principles to build habits and make your learning fun and engaging.

Learning

How To Remember What You Learn For Longer With Spaced Repetition

In this article we're going to be continuing our evidence-based learning series by looking at how you can learn faster and retain information for longer using spaced repetition.

Learning

How I Ranked 1st At Medical School and Surgical Exams Using Active Recall

Want to save time reading and maximise recall at exams and tests? The way you're thinking about learning might even be fundamentally wrong.

Entrepreneur

Hiring Superstars

Hiring people to reduce your workload is essential to you working on your business rather than in it unfortunately hiring can seem chaotic and mis-hires can cost you on both lost pay and lost opportunity.

Human Performance

5 Ways To Deal With Rejection

We're going to understand why rejection and failure hurts and give you my top 5 tips for dealing with and overcoming rejection so you can perform at your best all the time every time.

Human Performance

How To Easily Learn From The Victories and Mistakes of Human History

In 1968 Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and Ariel Durant published the book The Lessons of History collecting knowledge and experiences from five decades from their larger text The Story of Civilization.

Entrepreneur

Why Your Culture and People Are So Important When Scaling A Business

My startup - Virti - grew nearly 1000% in under 12 months. Today I'm going to cover some of the lessons I learnt from this period of hypergrowth to help you build winning teams and company culture.

Entrepreneur

Why We've Raised $10M

Today, we’re announcing a Series A round of $10m for Virti led by IQ Capital with participation from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Here's why we've done it.