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A powerful lesson everyone needs to hear... The goals are the checkpoint, not the destination: It's easy to view every goal you set as a finish line, but that's missing the bigger picture. Life is a long, long game, and these goals are simply checkpoints along the way. When you embrace that checkpoint mentality, missed goals can be a blessing, rather than a curse. The learnings and insights derived from a loss are far more robust than what we take from a win. They provide real-time course correction that may propel us forward faster than we ever imagined. Sometimes missing a goal is the best thing that ever happened to you. Remember: It's just a checkpoint, not the destination. 📌 To learn more science-backed systems to improve your life, join thousands who have preordered my first book: https://lnkd.in/efUWCNW9 Enjoy this? ♻ Repost to help your network and follow Sahil Bloom for more.

Managers often incorrectly assume that their employees know how much they appreciate them. But most of them need to do a lot more to show it.

Walmart said clinics are not a sustainable business model due to a challenging reimbursement environment for primary care and increasing operating costs.

This is a life hack I wish I knew at 22... The Feynman Technique (how to learn anything): The Feynman Technique is a learning method that prioritizes simplicity to build depth of understanding. It takes its name after Richard Feynman—an American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics. Feynman's true genius was noted as his ability to convey complex ideas in simple, elegant ways. He observed that complexity and jargon are often used to mask a lack of deep understanding. The Feynman Technique is a learning framework that requires you to develop a deep understanding of a given topic. It involves four key steps: 1. Set the Stage 2. ELI5 (Explain It To Me Like I'm 5) 3. Assess & Study 4. Organize, Convey & Review Let's cover each step: Step 1: Set the Stage What’s the topic you want to learn? Starting with a blank page, write the topic at the top and jot down everything you know about it. Read & research the topic. Add any new learnings or insights as you develop them. Step 2: ELI5 Here's where it gets unique: Attempt to explain the topic to someone without a base understanding of it (i.e. a “child”). On a blank page, write down everything you know about your topic—but pretend you are explaining it to a child. Use simple language! Step 3: Assess & Study Reflect on your performance. Form an honest assessment. How well were you able to explain the topic to a child? Where did you get frustrated? Where did you turn to jargon? These are the gaps in your understanding! Read and study more to fill them. Step 4: Organize, Convey & Review Organize your elegant, simple language into a clear, compelling story or narrative. Convey it to a few others, then iterate and refine accordingly. Review your new, deep understanding of the topic. Remember: Simple is beautiful. The Feynman Technique is a powerful framework for learning anything. The best entrepreneurs, investors, and thinkers have leveraged this technique—whether they know it or not! Their common genius: the ability to abstract complexity and convey ideas in simple, digestible ways. It's easy to overcomplicate and intimidate—we all know people who try to do this. But don't be fooled—complexity and jargon are often used to mask a lack of deep understanding. Be better. Use the Feynman Technique: Find beauty in simplicity. *** Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more. I write about these topics for 700,000+ others. Join them here: https://lnkd.in/esGsF85Q

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Barron's and The Wall Street Journal yesterday reporting that Cigna Healthcare and Humana are in merger talks, and why a deal might make sense: "Cigna and Humana are in talks for a combination that would create a new powerhouse in the health-insurance industry. Joining forces would give the pair scale to rival that of UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health and vault the combined company into the top tier of integrated healthcare firms. Cigna, which had revenue of about $181 billion last year, would be able to marry its huge pharmacy-benefit unit, which manages drug plans, and its strength in commercial insurance with Humana’s big position in the fast-growing Medicare segment, something Cigna has long sought. Humana could also help Cigna accelerate a strategy that is core to the managed-care business, a move toward paying doctors and hospitals in ways that aren’t tied to the volume of service provided. These “value-based care” setups are increasingly central to Medicare plans, but have advanced far more slowly in commercial insurance." ********** The question for the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, and for commercial teams working on 'product-market fit' for assets and brands at all stages of development in all therapeutic categories in all disease states, is this: how do you compete here? What's the unique vision for "value"? The Standard Model of 'drug promotion' and 'disease awareness' campaigns....the stuff of the Industrial Age....has run out of power. Look no further than the latest earnings from Pfizer, Sanofi and Moderna for evidence, or the losing war PhRMA is fighting with governments worldwide over "price". It's time to ride a new horse. The next cycle of business in "the mother of all markets" starts with #positioning a new strategy story altogether. Drop the word "access" from "market access innovation" -- focus energy and investment instead on market innovation. Integrate 'science-making capabilities' + 'market-making capabilities' in a way that CVS Health or UnitedHealth Group can't. Compete on outcomes from new health infrastructures rather than as a commodity input to someone else's economic system. Elevate #HEOR ahead of "branding" in the "creative brief" to agencies and vendors. The future works in combination. And for evidence of this, I would suggest taking a look at the outcomes-based contract BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. signed with the German Health Insurance Fund. Or the new health-tech business AstraZeneca just launched with Fortrea and Parexel. The weight is out there, just waiting to be picked up and given direction. To invent leverage, DM me here or send a dispatch ([email protected]) #ModernStrategy @ Blue Spoon Consulting