Friday's Five ✋ #191
Happy Friday! ☀️
Hello from Berlin after a week in Belgium with family & friends. My biggest highlights were spending time with my two nephews and hometown friends and getting my first vaccination shot! Other than that…
What I’m reading 📖
Quiet Leadership by David Rock is the book I’ve gifted most to mentees and coachees. The sentence on the back of the book describes best what the book is about: don’t tell people what to do, help them to think better. In this six-step guide, Quiet Leadership proposes a brain-based approach that will help leaders and managers improve their own and their people’s performance. More about the book.
What I’m listening to 🎧
Bit of a surreal setting: Dax Shepard of the Armchair Expert Podcast met up with Prince Harry (!) to talk about mental health and a broad range of other topics. This is the kind of interview that you would never find in British tabloid media and that’s a shame. I find it so impressive that Dax stays true to his conversational style and that Harry vibes with him. Click.
What I’m watching 📺
Halston was deemed the first American celebrity fashion designer and I must admit that I didn’t know about him until I watched the 5-part series on Netflix that stars Ewan McGregor as the main protagonist. New York in the Seventies, fashion, Studio 54, the rise and fall of a creative genius. The production value is incredible and reminded me of The Crown. Costumes, set design, film locations, acting performance, drama. It’s all there and I binged it. Watch the trailer.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
I’ve made some lifestyle changes in the recent weeks and am pleased with the result so far. 5 weeks ago I stopped eating sugar and switched to a ketogenic diet 4 weeks ago. Kickstarted by a 5-day bone broth fast, I lost 8kg and stabilized my weight once I broke the fast. I also stopped taking anti-depressants and notice higher concentration and stable energy due to the adjusted diet. Onwards.
What else?! 💯
I’m an overt napper and have been enjoying a good nap during the day for a few years now. While research and science about sleep has had an uptick recently, one dimension of sleep still seems a bit taboo: daytime naps. How to take a perfect nap is something the folks over at TED Ed have thought about too and explain it in a short video. Snooze.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
P.S.: if you liked this, your best friend might too. Thank you for sharing: https://davidnoel.substack.com