Talib Hashim

🟢 Entrepreneur, Founder of TBH Hub & Founder of 🟢 Thoughts on Empowering local talent, business growth & leading in the middle east 🟢

[Talib Hashim @TalibHashem]

📣 My latest interview with @omaralbusaidy is out!
In this 34 min candid and honest interview we talk about the real issues facing Emiratisation.
If you need help with your Emiratisation needs, pls email me: [email protected]

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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to read this...

Black Coffee Theory

(a visual thread)

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The fastest way to lose leverage is to need the outcome too much. The moment they can smell desperation, the negotiation is already contaminated. Build options before you ask. Build competence before you demand. Build distance before you care. A man with alternatives does not beg. He simply chooses.

[Talib Hashim @TalibHashem]

I just published What I Learned Asking People if They Were Prepared for The Future? https://t.co/KPIRR1ke67

[Talib Hashim @TalibHashem]

I just published What I Learned Asking People if They Were Prepared for The Future? https://t.co/KPIRR1ke67

[Talib Hashim @TalibHashem]

Energy is the most attractive human trait. But how do you actually build it?

This was a great read from @sahilbloom on 8 ways to be more magnetic. https://t.co/oLA7fmbq9F

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The life cheat code nobody told you: Be the most interested person in the room. Everyone tries to be the most interesting person in the room. The most compelling stories. The funniest lines. The most impressive credentials. The most names dropped. Don't be everyone. It backfires. It feels painfully forced. It reads as insecure. Instead, focus on being interested, not interesting. Turn outward. Take a genuine interest in others. Not as a means to an end, but because you actually want to learn about who they are as a person, beneath the surface. When you open up to people, they can feel it. They reciprocate and open up to you. Be visibly happy to see people. Smile at people. Ask high-quality questions. What are you most excited about right now? What's creating the most energy in your life at the moment? What's lighting you up outside of work? Ask follow-up questions. Be glowing about what other people are doing. Not fake or disingenuous, but genuinely excited about what they're excited about. Lighting up for others makes them light up for you. Being interested is how you become interesting.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Money advice nobody told you: The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value. No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool. That's not the way the world works. Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created. Create value, receive value. If money is the goal, value has to be the focus. This isn't just some vague idea: The only way to get rich is to create an enormous amount of value for others, and capture a small portion of that along the way. It's not talking about the thing, it's not brainstorming about the thing, it's not asking about the thing, it's not thinking about the thing. The only way to create value is by doing the thing. And if you don't know where to start, look around you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, shareholders, employees. Every single one of them has a problem. What problems can you solve for the people around you? Figure them out, solve them, scale that solution. That's how you make money.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Every man eventually discovers that competence is the only real stabilizer of self-esteem; no amount of praise, affirmation, or philosophical comfort can replace the confidence that comes from knowing you can produce results even when conditions are hostile.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A man who studies his own patterns with brutal honesty eventually becomes harder to manipulate, because once he understands where he typically bends, panics, or seeks comfort, he can anticipate his own weaknesses and close the gaps before someone else exploits them.

[Just For Profit @jfpinsights]

The more generic your product offering, more time, effort & money it will take to get to your correct audience. Hence, start with a niche, and once you have perfected it, add another. Amazon started as a book store now it sells everything. Opposite route is difficult.
#niche

[Mann Bandooni @Nacc0110]

Some days nothing works.

And you still show up the next day.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

This hits because most people want the reward, not the responsibility.
They want the freedom, but not the discipline.
The results, but not the repetition.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it.
If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire.
To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The endgame of competence is simple: you become so skilled, so resourceful, and so strategically embedded that whether it’s a company, a relationship, or a project, the rational move for everyone involved is to keep you, reward you, and bet on you, because losing you would cost them more than they’re willing to pay.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The most dangerous move is believing transparency protects you. It doesn’t. It merely gives others material to interpret, distort, and use against you. Control what is known, reveal only what strengthens your position, and remember that mystery is defense.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The calmest people I know have stopped trying to control outcomes they can't control. They do their best. Release the rest. Attachment to specific results is attachment to suffering. Control the input. Accept the output.

[Talib Hashim @TalibHashem]

I found myself reading my own article. It was a useful remainder about being 'resilient'. It's importance in shaping our character, and maintaining our sanity.
It’s hard and a lonely experience you'll have to endure and make sense of on your own.
https://t.co/gYbWz19Fdz

[د. عبدالعزيز العبداللطيف @azizalabdulatef]

خجل الطفولة والجريمة …
من خلال تجربتي في عالم المال والأعمال، تعاملت مع الكثير من الرجال و النساء ، من رواد النجاح ، لكن وجت البعض منهم ، برغم الثروة والمكانة كانوا أسرى عقد واضحة: غيرة قاتلة ، تعجرف مهين ، تعمد لإذلال الآخرين، انعدام ثقة بالنفس، وأحيانا شذوذ عقلي مع كل من يعمل تحت سلطته . مفارقة حيّرتني طويلا، إلى أن قادتني القراءة في علم النفس إلى خيط واحد اسمه خجل الطفولة. فخجل الطفولة ليس حياء طبيعي كما تعتقد عزيزي القارئ ، بل هو ضغط نفسي متراكم ناتج عن إساءة، أو سخرية، أو قمع، أو اضطهاد من قريب أو غريب مع خوف لم يسمح للطفل أن يعبر عنه أو يرد عليه. فيخزن الألم في العقل الباطن ، وينتظر لحظة القوة. وحين تتوفر هذه القوة، مالا أو سلطة أو شهرة، تظهر العقد في صورة انعدام ثقة ، ثم انتقام بأدوات مختلفة. وتشير المحللة النفسية السويسرية أليس ميلر في كتابها ( دراما الطفل الموهوب ) : إلى أن الطفل الذي لم ينقذ من ألمه قد ينجح خارجيا، لكنه يعيد إنتاج جراحه على الآخرين، فيتعمد إذلالهم !