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In this episode, we learn the power of micro habits from Amit Agarwal, the author of Small is Big.

He discovered this principle during a painful experience in a meditation program. The discovery changed his life and he's on a mission to share it with the world.

We can complete challenging exercises such as a marathon by focusing on one step at a time. I was more curious about learning approaches that can help with professional goals. How do I even identify a habit in the first place?

Amit shares a doable approach to develop micro habits that strengthen family bonds and bring joy to your life

For professional lives, he provides an optimal way to schedule and run meetings. We discuss the most effective durations and how to get everyone's best input. His book shares various templates based on the purpose.

We also discuss resonance and how it applies to all experiences, both positive and negative. Amit used this to achieve the highest sales quarter in his company's history. The interesting part was that this was when they were in a tough spot. Amit also shares how can prepare for raising capital by understanding resonance.

This podcast was an idea to make yourself the best person you can be. Not by an overhaul. We make big things happen by matching with small steps.

I truly enjoyed this conversation and am positive it will help you in your goals.

I had an opportunity to interview Michael Haase, the CEO and founder of Plant Jammer. They have developed an innovative AI solution to reduce food wastage at home. 33% of food is being wasted every day. Of that, our homes contribute to approx half of that problem.

One way of solving it is by emptying the fridge. I've tried this but genuinely do not know how to be creative about it. It's hard to come up with dishes that will be palatable. That is not surprising. 

Michael's research indicates that an average person cooks just abouten10 recipes or so in a year. With such a limited diversity around what we can cook, it's a challenging problem. So how do you solve food wastage around these themes? 

We talk about the various innovation approaches that anyone can adopt. Listen in to the interview here

• My takeaways from the conversation
• How to scope the problem space?
• How do you pick the right problem to attack? 
• How do you bring tech to effect change at the personal level?
• What jamming means at work and how it builds an excellent team culture. 
• What journey mapping is and how it helps uncover empathy?

Book resource that we covered during our conversation is the The Mom Test 

A good football team in NFL, the American Football League, is known for how well it executes the two-minute offense. When its back is against the wall facing a time constraint, it has to march the troops across the field and score points. The two-minute drill defines a team and usually its performance in the playoffs. 

How does all this relate to innovations? Crunch time situations call for Mind-Blowing teamwork. Planning for these worst-case situations will bring out unique ways of solving the problem. In this episode, we dive into preparing teams for your two-minute drills. This scenario planning will add fire to the innovators in your crew.

Concussions are a very serious topic that affects both adults and children alike. As we expect, they occur during strong physical impacts including accidents or hard contact sports such as American football. However, they are prevalent in a larger variety of sports.

In this episode, we talk to Dr Piya Sorcar, founder and CEO of CrashCourse and TeachAids. CrashCourse is a VR/HD video interactive curriculum by TeachAids to help athletes, parents, and coaches alike to better understand and evaluate concussions on and off the field. CrashCourse offers certifications in concussion knowledge and is partnered with 23 Olympic National Governing Bodies, Pop Warner Football, and more.

CrashCourse is a true leader in nonprofit global education innovation. In the episode, we talk about the course, its design, and the innovations in educating people on concussions. In the episode, we talk about the course, its design, and the innovations in educating people on concussions.

An innovation exercise generally means an ultra-positive event. It's kind of like an all you can eat sugary, sweet experience. And as we all know, anything unbalanced is not stable. Today, I want to talk to you about criticism and the key role it plays in innovation. One common misconception is that innovation means only positive thoughts. Anything critical is perceived as unfavourable, something which weighs the group energy down. We differentiate between a negative input and a critical input. Criticism means that you are judging the merits and determining the faults of an approach. We also take a look at the design thinking framework and which phases call for critical thinking. 

In this episode, we talk about how you can capture attention of your customers of your consumers in the shortest amount of time. With the least budget. We analyze marketing at mega sporting events such as superbowl, and world cup finals for cricket and football. We draw examples from movie marketing. Finally, we derive the technique to increase your chances of gathering highest visibility for your products.

Every sports team has at least one standout player. This person is someone that every team member looks up to. When the team is doing well, it's easy to attribute the success to this person. However, I'm sure you realize that the crew matters a whole lot more.

Similarly, in innovation projects you need to blend the talents of the creative thinkers with the teams perspectives. We dig into how to make that happen.

In this episode we talk about the principle of surprise – If you want to target new customers, want to offer than new products and services you must introduce a principle of surprise. Just the introduction of something new will not make then customers for life. There is a small nuance which we have to take care of and you will be successful in the long run.

In this episode, we discuss what do we mean by systems thinking and systems planning. This is a concept that a lot of businesses can benefit from. When it comes to entrepreneurs of small and medium sizes, adopting systems thinking can dramatically change your operations. You will eliminate most of the inefficiencies and this will directly impact your ROI.