Breathing protocols to reboot your health, fix your sleep, and boost performance. An opinionated guide to using AI right now. A smarter way to disagree.

One “must” for this week: breathing protocols to reboot your health, fix your sleep, and boost performance

A few years back, I hired a voice coach.

I wanted to sound more confident in meetings, to get my point across without rambling.

I thought she would give me tips on posture and pacing.

Instead, one of her first questions was, ‘How do you breathe?’

She recommended James Nestor’s book, “Breath”. I got the audiobook, and I was very curious.

I was expecting complex yogic techniques or intense breathwork exercises.

But the biggest lesson, the most surprising one, was super simple: “Breathe. Through. Your. Nose.”

That’s it.

I started practicing it consciously, on my walks in the park, answering emails, lying in bed. In the beginning it felt a bit unnatural, and I noticed that sometimes switched to shallow mouth breathing, especially when I was under stress.

Looking back to when I was younger, I am sleeping deeper, I feel calmer before big presentations, and I feel I have more energy than when I was 30.

While I made other healthy changes to my lifestyle over this time, breathing right has definitely helped me.

Instead of searching for complex ‘hacks’ to improve my performance and well-being, sometimes the answer are the simple ones, right under our noses the whole time 😉

When was the last time you consciously paid attention to your breathing during a stressful workday? What did you notice?

Personal development

• Breathing protocols to reboot your health, fix your sleep, and boost performance

• Children are capable of extreme bravery from a young age

• How the brain moves from waking life to sleep (and back again)

• I didn’t think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach

• On education

• Reclaiming ignorance

• The CEO Test: a powerful tool for life

• You’ll never “find time” to rest

Innovation

• An opinionated guide to using AI right now

• Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

• More articles are now created by AI than humans

• Run AI privately and for free on your computer

• The bear theory

• The best way to use AI for learning

• The future of autonomous vehicles

• Why 95% of AI initiatives fail

Leadership and management

• A smarter way to disagree

• Coaching and psychological Safety: listening, trust and letting go of control

• Embracing authenticity for a healthier workplace

• Guide to big companies: retaining great people

• Observe, assert, and validate (OAV)

• Rethinking...

• The importance of leadership

• The power of metaphors when introducing change initiatives

One book

“Solve for Happy” by Mo Gawdat.

See you next Saturday

Roberto