Vikram Mekala

Copying others doesn't work because success without substance doesn't last.

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The path to differentiated results looks like madness to the masses. As the adage goes, if you do what everyone else does, you'll get the same results everyone else gets. Extraordinary success requires misunderstood choices.

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Bill Gates once had the radio removed from ... See more

We live in a time of such confusion and rancor, with a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes.

We chase the approval of strangers on our phones.

We build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone.

We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the tim

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Distilling all of this into 6 key lessons:

1. Family time is limited—cherish it.


2. Friend time is limited—prioritize real ones.


3. Partner time is significant—never settle.


4. Children time is precious—be present.


5. Coworker time is significant—find energy.


6. Alone time is abundant—love yourself.

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In Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?, advertising executive Rory Sutherland challenges our knee-jerk assumption that faster is always better. He asks us to consider what might happen if we approached problem-solving and decision-making with a more open-ended, human-centered perspective.

He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more

By removing the human, we remove artificial barriers of time and money

Five areas where Sorrell sees AI impacting advertising and media

1. Visualisation and copy writing. What took three weeks can take two hours. More use of text to visuals. This is a double-edged sword for agencies selling their services on time.


2. Hyper personalisation. Netflix has already taught us how to use data to create content at scale. AI can hel

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