<ul><li>There’s more opportunity for audio-first products that go beyond passive listening</li><li>Platforms can provide user-generated content, live conversations, and other social interactions</li></ul>

Beyond Podcasts

<ul><li>The social application of video started with a small group of innovators and then exploded to include platforms like YouTube and TikTok, the audio format will follow suit</li><li>Though audio apps may have begun with podcasting and audiobooks, we’re on the front-end of a decade of innovation in social audio</li></ul>

The precedent for social + audio

There are many existing audio use cases that can be categorized by product attributesThemes shaping the future of social audio<ul><li>Innovation in the content format</li><li>The evolution of the business model</li><li>The growing ubiquity of audio</li></ul>Convergence of technology and human behavior<ul><li>The demand for audio is at an all-time high, motivating entrepreneurs to be more adventurous in user-generated methods of creating audio content</li></ul>

How social audio might innovate

Audio will create the next generation of startups in social networking and publishing, much like the innovations we have seen in messaging, video, and other media to date.

We’re on the cusp of a wave of audio innovation that will rival the explosion of video apps. Now new social + audio startups are stretching beyond podcasts.

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The Next Phase of Social? Listen Closely | Andreessen Horowitz

With the increasing push from corporate boards and shareholders for innovation, many managers and leaders need to find which of the many different ways innovation they should use to achieve and accelerate innovation.
It is important to understand that there is no single best approach, but you can find one most suited to your current needs.

Choosing An Approach To Innovation

Innovation initiatives are spread among the whole organization. There is no central unit or formal Head of Innovations but everyone can come up with new ideas. interesting innovation supporting tools include:<ul><li>Adobe's Kickbox Foundation, employees can volunteer to receive an innovation box with creative tools and a $1,000 prepaid credit card to fund any new projects.</li><li>Ideas that work at Google. Think 10x, Launch, then keep listening, Share everything you can, Hire the right people, Use the 70/20/10 model, Look for ideas everywhere, Use data (not opinions), and Focus on users (not the competition.)</li></ul>

Innovation In-House (Traditional Approach)

Creating a new department centralizes company-wide innovation efforts. The department collects new ideas from all employees and across hierarchies, gather ideas from outside of the company, evaluate unique ideas, execute feasibility studies, and prepare business cases. The biggest challenge is setting the right key performance indicators (KPIs) and return of investment (ROI). Another is the not-invented-here syndrome (NIH) that will have to be challenged.

Innovation In-House (Separate Department Approach)

The lab is a more-or-less autonomous business unit that can benefit from its parent company's resources, knowledge, and innovation base. Moreover, it is free from the bureaucratic ways of decision-making of many large companies. This results in new or unique opportunities that can be explored quicker while bypassing the strict corporate guidelines and procedures. In some cases, the lab can sell its services to the parent company's clients, increasing revenue.

Innovation In-House (Autonomous Lab Approach)

To harness the existing potential of a growing start-up or emerging technology, companies can use mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to gain substantial market growth or to acquire a solution or service they were missing. Google purchased YouTube in 2006 as one of its many acquisitions. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com and created LinkedIn Learning. Twitter bought Quill, a business-focused messaging service.

Innovation External (Mergers And Acquisitions)

Some companies set up accelerators or incubators for small and independent start-ups. Their advantage is early access to new and unique ideas without expensive investments into internal innovation department capabilities. For example, L'Oreal and its Founders Factory. L'Oréal provides each start-up with access to an in-house team of experts that gives operational support and mentoring.

Innovation External (Start-Up Support)

There are many new and out-of-the-box ways of how-to emerging innovation.
<ul>
<li>New forms of innovation include the Sandbox of Slovak National Bank - a platform that allows the participant via consultations with NBS to adjust financial innovation.</li>
<li>Crowdfunding is another approach to do innovations. With Ideascale crowd, you can launch a challenge and solve a problem with the help of a curated group of 30,000 problem-solvers.</li>
<li>Open innovation is combining a company to build and launch innovative ideas with the power of internal employees and external audiences. For example, Lego Ideas Community.</li>
</ul>

Innovating Is Subject To Innovation

With the increasing push from corporate boards and shareholders for innovation, digitalization, automation, and disruption of business, many managers and leaders stand before a tough mission. Which of the many different ways innovation can be achieved, accelerated, and maintained is right for their ...

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Every Master is once a Beginner

Losses are the proof that you are Trying

Remember that your failure will be the part of your Success Story

There is no greater victory than controlling onself

Life doesn't get Easier, you just get Stronger

Don't chase Money, People, Things or Success. Be the best version of yourself and those things will chase you

Failing is often the best way to Learn, and because of that Early failure is the kind of necessary Investment

Once you become Fearless, Life become Limitless

The person you are today is the sum of all your Choices and Decisions in Life up to Date

We must decide to get rid of all doubts and fears. They are the worst enemies of our progress

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Affirmations for your Success

Everyone is only interested in what they want, not what others want. So focus on the others perspective and their needs, so it becomes easy to handle them even for your purpose from them

Handling People

Criticising is makes opoose of people. Criticising makes people emotionally uncomfortable. You can't get anything by criticising. Either it will came back to you and you will suffer

Don't Criticise

Give a Genuine Interest in people. Listen to them when they communicate with you. This make them comfort to communicate with you, with that you can easily understand them and win their friendship

Listen To People

If you need anything from a person, first fullfill that person needs and you get the need from their. There is no such thing for "Something for Nothing

Give And Take

Do you feel stuck in life, not knowing how to make it more successful? Do you wish to become more popular? Are you craving to earn more? Do you wish to expand your horizon, earn new clients and win people over with your ideas? How to Win Friends and Influence People is a well-researched and comprehensive guide that will help you through these everyday problems and make success look easier. You can learn to expand your social circle, polish your skill set, find ways to put forward your thoughts more clearly, and build mental strength to counter all hurdles that you may come across on the path to success. Having helped millions of readers from the world over achieve their goals, the clearly listed techniques and principles will be the answers to all your questions.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Updated for today’s readers, Dale Carnegie’s timeless bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic that has improved and transformed the professional and personal and lives of millions. One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed. Originally published during the depths of the Great Depression—and equally valuable during booming economies or hard times—Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their professional and personal lives. How to Win Friends and Influence People teaches you: -How to communicate effectively -How to make people like you -How to increase your ability to get things done -How to get others to see your side -How to become a more effective leader -How to successfully navigate almost any social situation -And so much more! Achieve your maximum potential with this updated version of a classic—a must-read for the 21st century.

Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

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Initially, the tech company was the lean, innovative underdog that took on the powerful status quo to free the consumer from how they viewed ideas, institutions and service delivery. But tech can no longer claim that. The so-called tech disruptors of today have unchallenged access, funding, and regulatory support. Disruption is sold as a one-way street where technology can change a social space if it is static but can't be changed in return. Yet, today's disruption is happening through users and networks, not tech companies.

Technological disruption

Grab and Gojek were mobility platforms meant to disrupt the city's existing motorbike taxi market by creating a driver workforce that was anonymised. Instead, the Grab and Gojek drivers used WhatsApp to create thousands of DIY community spaces. Loose driver groups changed into independent, cross-company communities that were organised by drivers for drivers. Yet, this type of disruption is not considered as such. Tech companies label Uber as an innovative disruption while motorbike taxis that provide a similar service are deemed dangerous or chaotic.

Example of disruption

The promise of disruption is much restrained by terms set by tech companies themselves. Companies increasingly try to prevent the ability to use and build upon existing technologies in ways that the original company does not approve of. However, tech is never the first or last mover of change. It is just one of the forces within a complex social world. To design better technology means to take it out of the centre. Technology that responds to people's needs sees users as more than just passive recipients will be best able to harness its power.

The promise of disruption

There's a wave of innovation led by users and networks, not tech companies.

There's a wave of innovation that we're failing to recognize—and it's being led by users and networks, not tech companies.

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Marie Curie profoundly impacted the world. Born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was a child prodigy in literature and mathematics. She worked as a governess until age 24 to save money for school and became the first woman in France to earn her PhD. She studied uranium, which was not well understood at the time. She discovered two new elements, radium and polonium, created cancer treatments and advanced x-ray technology, won a Nobel Prize in 1903, and won a second Nobel Prize in 1911.

Learning from Marie Curie

As an extraordinary scientist, Marie Curie relied on three key strategies to understand the world, make decisions, collaborate with others, and explore new ideas. <ul><li>She embraced the unknown. Curie challenged widely-held beliefs and later proved her position.</li><li>Making radical bets on herself. When Pierre Curie, her husband and lab partner, unexpectedly died, she did not step down from the lab as colleagues expected but stayed at the university, Sorbonne, and took over the lab herself.</li><li>Sharing her ideas. Marie Curie would work with anyone interested in radiation, including people in healthcare.</li></ul>

Marie Curie’s thinking strategies

<ul><li>Learn how to bet on yourself. Marie Curie made decisions about her career because she valued science. What small risk can you take right now to improve your work or life?</li><li>She made choices based on her values. Are your work and personal decisions aligned with your values?</li><li>Share ideas. Use them to connect with others inside and outside your field. It will give you the opportunity to receive feedback.</li></ul>

How to think like Marie Curie

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903. Then, in 1911, she became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and still holds the record as the only woman who has earned two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.

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Marie Curie: the power of sharing radical ideas with the world

The Alchemist is the book about Why and How to follow your Dreams

Lessons Learned From The Alchemist Book

Dreams are the Language of God communicating with us what you want to do in this Earth.

Dream Is A Language

Your dreams may be irrelevant to your surroundings or your carrer path may be you think it's impossible, but that's the thing you have to do in this EarthIf you got any irrelevant or you think it is impossible, just to do that once, you got an Idea

Impossible Or Irrelevant Dreams

When you started to chase your dreams, you may be struk in the mid or beginning. Just be relaxed and calm. You'll find God's Sign, with that you can go forward easily.

God Signs

We always get problems in our journey of life, same as that we get problems in our path, but that's all about God's plan. The problems came for you to Level Up you for attaining your Dreams

Don't Be Afraid Of The Problems In Your Dream Path

In our Life we have a Big Treasure to attain. But in the journey for finding the treasure, the path gets full of small jewells. If we get ok with that small jewells you can't attain your Treasure

Final Moral

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then.

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Understanding this is critical because one of the most useful skills you can have is creative thinking. Innovative solutions, lateral thinking, and creative ideas can help with almost any problem you face at work or in life.

Why you should read this 

Most importantly, your ability to generate new combinations is dependent on your ability to see the connections between concepts. You have done something creative if you can create a new link between two old ideas.

The 5 Stages of the Creative Process

You learn at first. During this stage, you should concentrate on 1) learning specific material directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts.

1. Gather new material.

During this stage, you examine what you've learned by looking at the facts from different perspectives and experimenting with putting different ideas together.

2. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind.

Then you completely forget about the problem and go do something else that excites and energises you.

3. Step away from the problem.

Your idea will return to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy at some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it.

4. Let your idea return to you.

For any idea to succeed, it must be put out into the world, subjected to criticism, and adapted as necessary.

Shape and develop your idea based on feedback.

“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”

The act of making new connections between old ideas is referred to as the creative process. As a result, we can define creative thinking as the task of identifying relationships between concepts.

The act of making new connections between old ideas is referred to as the creative process. As a result, we can define creative thinking as the task of identifying relationships between concepts.

This article explains the creative process all brilliant ideas have in common. Anyone can learn to be creative by using these five steps.

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<ul><li>Thinking about the future is pleasurable and sometimes we’d rather just think about it than get there. Some events are more pleasurable to imagine than to experience.</li><li>We like to daydream because the mere dream itself can be a joy.</li><li>The main reason why our brains simulate the future is so that we can control the experiences that we have. </li><li>Our brain makes predictions incredibly quickly and about nearly everything in life. When our experiences don't match what our brain expects, we feel surprised.</li></ul>

How We Think About The Future

The greatest ability of the human brain is to imagine, to see the world as it has never been before.But imagination has three shortcomings:<ul><li>Imagination tends to add and remove details, but people do not realize that key details may be fabricated or missing from the imagined scenario. </li><li>Imagined futures (and pasts) are more like the present than they actually will be (or were).</li><li>Imagination fails to realize that things will feel different once they actually happen—most notably, the psychological immune system will make bad things feel not so bad as they are imagined to feel.</li></ul>

Our Ability To Imagine

The word happiness is used to refer to three related things:<ul><li>Emotional happiness</li><li>Moral happiness</li><li>Judgemental happiness</li></ul>It’s hard to define emotional happiness, but when we feel it, we have no doubt about its reality and importance. Because we have a poor recollection of our experiences, we cannot objectively compare a previous state of happiness to a present state.

About Happiness

All claims of happiness are subjective. And are formed from the perspective of a single human being whose unique collection of past experiences serves as context.Nobody really knows what happiness feels like for others, so that means we can’t say definitely whether someone in a situation that might seem bad to us is actually less happy than we are. In fact, it’s entirely possible they are just as happy or even more so.Not knowing what we are missing is the very thing that allows us to be happy despite not having some other opportunity.

Happiness Is Subjective

Your experiential background can dramatically change your happiness levels. Once you know something exists and have experienced pleasure from it, then your definition of happiness changes compared to what it was in the past.

The Experience-Stretching Hypothesis

Negative events affect us but not as long as we expect them. When our psychological immune system is working, we are able to cope with any negative situation that comes our way. Explaining events robs them of their emotional impact because it makes the event seem more likely. This allows us to stop thinking about them.

Rationalization

Wealth increases people’s happiness after it removes them from poverty and places them in the middle class. After that, there is little relation between wealth and happiness.

Wealth And Happiness

Experience and awareness are closely related but not the same. <ul><li>Experience refers to partaking in an event. </li><li>Awareness refers to being cognizant that the event is happening.</li></ul>

Experience And Awareness 

It happens when a phenomenon arises from very large numbers of something, but not smaller versions of it. For example, billions of neurons lead to a conscious human brain, but two neurons are not a small version of consciousness.

The Law of Large Numbers

Psychological sciences will always be imperfect because we are trying to observe someone else's subjective experience, but it's the best we've got and the closest an outside observer can get to understanding the inside of someone else's mind.

The Shortcomings of Psychology

It refers to judging historical events or people by modern-day standards. It is largely useless and unfair because you can't expect historical figures to make the same decisions as we do now because they lived in a very different context.

Presentism 

Mastering the greatest pursuit there ever was: Happiness

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How to Be Happy

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.

Daniel Gilbert is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Daniel Gilbert has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Daniel Gilbert's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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I have been doing ART for the past 9 years, and if there is something that I have realised is that once you get engrossed in it, art becomes your addiction. Every time you need to clear your mind, get back normal, or you're just bored, art is your go-man!

It's An Addiction!

Art gives you the immense happiness that nothing else can provide. The creativity starts flowing in all directions and you fell the magical vibe around you. It relaxes the whole body and gives a comforting and soothing feeling.

Comforting

For me the most important element required while doing art is MUSIC… music of my taste.Music gives me a diversion from my daily life. It gives me the flow to draw. The combination of music and art is something that most artists like.

Music X Art

Another thing I learned is that all of us have an artist within us, we just have to look for it. Many people think low of them in this field and fear even trying.

Art Is In Everyone 

“Art is of acquired taste, not everyone understands it”I understood this only after studying abstract art. Abstract art shows us the power of the human brain and what it withstands. It showed me how a single piece of art can be seen from different viewpoints.

Abstract Art

Art transforms you into a whole new person…. creative, contented, constructive and concentrated. It makes this world look way more interesting and beautiful than you would have ever imagined. ‘‘I would rather die of passion than of boredom.’’                                                 – VINCENT VAN GOGH

A Beautiful World 

I, as an artist myself can reflect upon these thoughts and connect it to my life. 

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