Book - PlayToPotential

A message from Deepak

In the book, Play to Potential, I explore the word potential in a holistic sense. Very often we use Potential in a work setting but that doesn’t quite capture our potential as a human being across the various identities we carry. I lay out a framework, FLAVOUR, which can provide language for you to take stock of your life and deal with the pulls and pressures and through that find our way to YOUR potential. The book builds on my work as a Coach, insights from the Play to Potential podcast and reflections from my journey.

Down below in this page, you can see the Chapter structure of the book along with some audio inserts that are referenced in the book. These audio clips may not make sense when you listen to them in isolation but they are an extension of the book. Hope you find the multi-media approach of value.

Warm regards,

Deepak

Audio Supplements

Across the book, we reference our conversations. Find them below.

Chapters

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9

Chapter 1
The Midlife Conundrum

1.1 Prof Raj Raghunathan on the secret fears of the super rich

1.2 Avnish Bajaj on Passion Skillset and Opportunity

Chapter 2
Limitations of Ikigai

2.1 Papa CJ on Balancing pragmatism with passion

2.2 Lynda Gratton on Implications of a 100 year life

Chapter 3
What Lies Beneath

3.1 Rama Bijapurkar on Self awareness in a world of abundance

3.2 Tasha Eurich on Internal and External Self awareness

3.3 Viswanathan Anand on Pausing at Move 40

3.4 Rich Fernandez on Integrated practice

Chapter 4
How 360 and 365 is your 360

4.1 Roopa Kudva on Outside-in view during transitions

4.2 Prof. Amy Edmondson on Voice Calculus

4.3 Bruce Feiler on Co-narrating a story

4.4 Jennifer Garvey Berger on Settling for the simple story

4.5 Anu Madgavkar on moment of epiphany

Chapter 5
Turning into our Values and Principles

5.1 Dan Pink on Regret as a photographic negative

5.2 Bruce Feiler on Lifequakes

5.3 Ramesh Srinivasan on dealing with and learning from life-quakes

Chapter 6
Crafting a FLAVOUR-ful life

6.1 Stew Friedman on managing stakeholder expectations

6.2 Amish Tripathi on enrolling family support

6.3 Tom Vanderbilt on the notion of Middle Aged Men in Lycra (MAMIL)

6.4 Herminia Ibarra on Personal, Operational and Strategic Networks

6.5 Ayse Birsel on Deconstruction and Reconstruction

Chapter 8
Meta-Skills for a FLAVOUR-ful life

8.1 Lloyd Reeb on the journey from a passion to an identity

8.2 Stew Friedman on Self, Work, Home & Community

8.3 Devdutt Pattanaik on Habits vs Awareness

8.4 Amish Tripathi on listening to the heart and the mind

8.5 Raj Raghunathan on the role of Awe

8.6 Ashley Whillans on Taylor vs Morgan & Satisficing vs Optimizing

Chapter 9
Rediscovering Our FLAVOUR of the Season

9.1 Sudhir Sitapati on Building a personal brand

9.2 Bruce Feiler on Leap of Faith

9.3 Herminia Ibarra on Liminality

9.4 Herminia Ibarra on acting your way into a new way of thinking

9.5 Deepa Malik on starting a restaurant after being paralyzed

9.6 Amish Tripathi on 20% writing project

9.7 Ashish Dhawan on choices post Chryscapital

9.8 Pramath Sinha on the tenuous link between education and careers

9.9 Jennifer Garvey Berger on how we overestimate past changes but underestimate future transformations

9.10 James Clear on keeping the identity small

9.11 Atul Khatri on occupying different ecosystems

9.12 Nandan Nilekani on UIDAI to contesting elections

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