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Manny Pacquiao: Fighter, Servant, Difference Maker
An exclusive guest post from Manny Pacquiao - his story begins as a stow-away on a boat bound for Manila, determined to pursue his dream of becoming a boxer and fighting to…
Author: Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
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Mindfulness: The Most Important Tool We Have
The Most Important Tool We Have. In these exclusive interviews we speak to Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn (scientist, writer and meditation teacher), Matthieu Ricard (Buddhist monk, photographer and author), Andy Puddicombe (Founder of…
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Leadership: Insights from World’s Foremost Experts
Leadership sits at the very heart of everything we do as a civilisation, and to understand more we spoke to a group of the world’s foremost experts on leadership across the military,…
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Deepak Chopra on Genius, Consciousness & Transformation
For centuries, great artists, scientists, writers, entrepreneurs and thinkers have seemingly tapped into somewhere else, beyond the realities faced by ‘the rest of us,’ to do the seemingly unimaginable – from creating…
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Stephen A. Schwarzman: Blackstone CEO on Excellence & Impact
My interview with Stephen A. Schwarzman - He’s the man who took $400,000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $545 billion. He’s the CEO whose views are sought by…
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On Identity: Kwame Anthony Appiah
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self,” wrote Haruki Murakami in his book Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche “…humans,…
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Diseases of the Heart
I want you to make a fist and hold it just to the left of the centre of your chest. Just under your ribs, is an organ, around that size, which will…
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Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps
“I am one of the early birds…” Ece Temelkuran told me, “I saw democracy collapse in Turkey and tried to warn the United States, European Countries and Britain about this. I’ve been…
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Learning from the Holocaust
In one of the darkest moments of modern civilisation, over six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany in a state-sponsored genocide. This event (The Holocaust) killed over two-thirds of Europe's entire…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Life Lessons from Sports
What My Life In Sports Has Taught Me: An exclusive guest-post for Thought Economics by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - The NBA’s All-Time Leading Scorer, 3x Award Winning Columnist of the Year, NY Times…
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How to Change the World: Leaders of Global Impact
In these exclusive interviews, I speak to the leaders of five of the world’s most influential civil sector organisations. Brian Gallagher (CEO of United Way Worldwide, the world’s largest privately-funded non-profit), William…
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Comedy & Satire’s Political Power: Youssef, Minhaj
To learn more about how satire and comedy can influence politics, I spoke to Dr. Bassem Youssef (whose story is told in the film ‘Tickling Giants,’ by Sara Taksler), Hasan Minhaj (host…