Your mind and perception can free your life, and they can also limit everything possible in your life.
What’s on the inside affects the action you take.
What is also accurate is that if you can set yourself up to create a new external reality, it will literally rewire your brain and change what’s happening on the inside of yourself.
That one moment of realisation, I decided to create something that I had desired for so long, and also decided to create something to add value to people, helping those who experience the same struggles, those who desire a breakthrough regardless of their work status—employed, freelance, looking for a job, or running a business.
The takeaways about growth
First inner abundance, then being able to handle the growth in business, careers, and money.
a.k.a. when you thrive, your career and your business thrive.
I was not actually believing it until I truly experienced it myself throughout 2024.
Yes, AI is revolutionising industries and society as a whole. It’s becoming our second brain, helping us think, plan, and execute better. But nothing can replace the human heart—our feelings, emotions, and self-awareness.
This is a key message we emphasise in every coaching session for our leaders:
Now is the best time to focus on self-awareness—on your heart, how you feel, why you feel—and follow your heart, not just your brain.
You already know enough. And now, with AI as your second brain—enhancing your decision-making and work efficiency—isn’t this the best time to focus on what truly matters to you?
What do you truly love from your heart?
What are you passionate about?
What excites your curiosity?
When you’re passionate about something, you naturally invest time in learning and mastering it—without being pushed or forced. That passion becomes your skills, knowledge, and experience.
Now, I can really feel it.
And when you share your expertise with the right people, you naturally build influence, trust, and opportunities, attracting the right clients and creating wealth.
Turning passion into a business, monetising, and growing has been an incredible journey. But it was also more challenging than expected, filled with plenty of mistakes along the way.
And that’s the beauty of growth.
And I can really feel it—so real, so good.
The takeaways about mistakes
Mistakes feel incredibly real—until you step in, experiment, and experience them firsthand. Growing a business or career is a real journey.
Because it’s real, we often feel sorry, disappointed, or even sad when mistakes happen. More often than not, we feel sorry for ourselves, instead of shifting our perception of mistakes.
That being said, the great takeaways about mistakes over the past decade, particularly over the past year when I was set free from a fixed employee mindset and started experimenting in being a free individual, turning skills, knowledge, and passion into an economic engine, attracting like-minded audiences and networks, and growing exponentially both personally and professionally—at least 10x faster and far more worthwhile than the employment journey.
Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with employment or having a 9-5, but what I realised was that by adding a rich experience in running a business, or if I make it sound less business-focused, a free individual's mindset, knowledge, practice, and growth become more complete.
I’m grateful that I experienced both a 9-5 career and being able to turn skills, knowledge, and experience into building wealth—not just money, but more importantly, assets.
Assets are what help you earn while you sleep, without trading your time. From my personal perspective, assets also include our resources, our network, and the people we surround ourselves with.
While I love the original Hedgehog concept, which I used a lot in coaching and consulting to help thought leaders and founders market their knowledge, experience, and monetise it while attracting prospects, clients, and partnerships, you may hear the word creator economy.
We are all creators, we all have an amazing natural zone of genius to explore and create, just like when we were kids.
And now, how many of us are living in the scarcity of exploring, experimenting, and making mistakes? There is definitely a cost of trial and error, but the cost of living in scarcity your whole life is even far bigger.
The greatest mistake is avoiding mistakes altogether.
The best and most unavoidable way to grow fast is through mistakes.
The key takeaway after making mistakes is to start by imitating what works, then innovate with your own unique touch, implement, and experiment.
Research, imitate, innovate, test, iterate, improve, and then test and iterate over and over again.
Even after more than a decade of professional work in a big organisation, I still make mistakes, but I increase opportunities to achieve tangible results by adopting proven models and strategies while reducing the cost of trial and error.
Imagine the mistakes you've made—how do they make you feel?
Most of the time, they lead to feeling sorry for yourself, right?
However, if you have even a rough idea of what you desire and stay open to exploring possibilities with an experimental mindset, every mistake you make brings you closer to that vision.
If you haven't made any mistakes on your path yet, ask yourself:
“Do I truly know what I want out of life?”
“If not, what steps can I take to find out?”
My one big mistake: Focus on the wrong thing
At the beginning, I felt pressured every time I scrolled on social media, like:
Who are hitting big milestones in months
Who are getting promoted
Who are scaling their businesses fast
Who are gaining massive followings
I felt scared, pressured because I focused on:
Short-term results instead of long-term mission
Months instead of years
Comparing myself to them, rather than digging into what works, what takeaways I could learn, what models they adopted, and how they grew.
The truth is, we look at growth and real work paying off over years, not months.
It’s now 2025, with AI rapidly updating and scaling up by the month. Many of us fear falling behind and have started to measure everything in months.
Also, we also often perceive work in a linear way, thinking:
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The truth is:
Work and output are not linear.
The 3 core factors that matter more than hard work:
What you do
Every choice leads in a different direction.
Even small tasks, when chosen wisely, can create massive leverage.
Who you do it with
Choosing the right people to work with, the right audience to serve,
and the right circle to grow in is far more important than just working hard.
How you do it
Your methods, mindset, resources, and efficiency determine your long-term results more than sheer effort.
by Naval Ravikant
The direct impact of this realisation came recently when I was consistently writing on LinkedIn and other social media—about AI strategy, takeaways from speaking events I attended, interviews with leaders, research and case studies, people’s real stories of success, and my own learnings and reflections.
And then—only when someone asked where they could find all my writing in one place—I realised I had spent forever looking for all the great points and takeaways I had shared…
That was why I decided to start this research community, powered by our philosophy: research, imitate what works, and innovate with your edge, your way.
Human first. Scale smarter, live better. Research → Imitate → Innovate.
In the format of a newsletter, with upgrade options for paid access to additional templates and tools.
This way, my plan is to consolidate our research, findings, insights, and takeaways into a well-organised format—a.k.a. newsletters—and potentially long-form videos to better help like-minded high performers, tech leaders, founders, creators, and AI enthusiasts learn, imitate, and innovate.
If you find our takeaways valuable, we invite you to share them with your friends, network, and clients.
Then I stepped back and looked into my content strategy alignment with the overall AI-driven business strategy, coaching my clients and peers with a structured approach—providing clarity on:
Anti-Vision
AI-driven vision
Mission
Core values
Turning Vision into goal setting
Goals into projects and priorities
Breaking down small pieces, and tasks.
Alignment in vision, mission, strategy, and goal roadmap.
AI-driven strategic approach in coaching our clients and peers:
Strategic growth in the coaching we provide to our clients in strategically adopting AI to grow businesses.
Research → Imitate → Innovate
Research what works.
Imitate successful models.
Innovate with your unique edge at a lower cost.
Build a systemised roadmap to create, iterate, monetise, and scale.
Grace
Founder, AI Strategy League
