Rohit Bhargava > Quotes

“a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Being elegant means developing your ability to describe a concept in a beautiful and simple way for easy understanding.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“We exist through intersections, but our conversations about diversity regularly push us to pick one identity for ourselves at the expense of others.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“The future of B2B marketing will be about creating better content, leveraging tactics and ideas that were once considered solely the realm of B2C brands, and ultimately building credibility by being more human.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“As humans, we all have subjective, ingrained beliefs that inform our decision-making, even if we aren’t aware of them. The problem is that the one-sided media we consume can end up confirming our perspectives rather than challenging them.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“YOU NEVER LEARN ANYTHING BY LISTENING TO YOURSELF SPEAK.” —SIR RICHARD BRANSON, Entrepreneur and Founder of the Virgin Group”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“You cannot understand someone whose life experience is only ever portrayed to you through movies.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“The people who adjust best to remote work train themselves to be more proactive, entrepreneurial, and motivated. The best remote workers are uncomfortable with the status quo. They avoid complacency and are not afraid to disrupt themselves when necessary.”
― Rohit Bhargava, The Non-Obvious Guide to Working Remotely:

“curiosity is a prerequisite to discovery.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Sometimes moving forward requires looking backward. Institutions also need to hold themselves accountable and increase their awareness of how government agencies, systems, and leaders have enacted harm toward marginalized populations in the near and distant past.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“Storytelling can be the most potent way to celebrate progress, inspire change, and bring about a more diverse world. If stories shape our perceptions, then perhaps the stories we never hear shape our biases through the lack of awareness they enable.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“Learn skills “just in time.”  As we saw in this chapter, the power of just in time education cannot be overstated.  It doesn’t need to be so formal as a training course, though.  Just in time education happens every time you prepare for a meeting or learn a new skill in anticipation for a new day.  The power of lifelong learning and curiosity is that this type of education should be happening for you consistently.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Always Eat Left Handed: 15 Surprisingly Simple Secrets Of Success

“The beautiful thing about mindsets is that we all have the ability to change ours—we just need to make the choice to do it.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Keep It Short.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“KEEP IT SHORT. Simplicity goes hand in hand with elegance. When it comes to expressing your ideas, this usually means using as few words as possible. It is also a well-known marker of expertise that when you truly understand something, you can explain it to a layperson without dumbing it down.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“Often the meaning of ideas and the connections among them surface only after setting the ideas aside.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“Tips & Tricks: How to Gather Ideas”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“Sometimes brands make a stand more quietly. Deep inside one of the world’s most famous factories, located in the tiny town of Billund, Denmark, more than a hundred engineers and scientists are collaborating to redesign a product that has worked perfectly for more than eighty years. The LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre, a well-funded group within LEGO, is dedicated to finding more sustainable materials within the next decade to make the company’s iconic bricks. In 2018 the group launched its first innovation, making flexible pieces such as leaves and palm trees from a plant-based plastic sourced from sugar cane. This sense of commitment to the environment is deeply felt at LEGO. Its efforts may inspire more such initiatives across the toy industry, especially if consumers take note of LEGO’s efforts and demand similar forward-looking commitments from other companies as well.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“A non-obvious trend is an idea that describes the accelerating present in a new, unique way.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“trend is a curated observation of the accelerating present.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“As we consume newsfeeds instead of homepages, we invite a curated bubble of content that New York Times writer Natasha Singer dubbed the “online echo chamber” to describe a myopic Internet where every piece of content we each see is personalized to us based on our likes, views and interests.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Three Ways to Become More Curious CONSUME “BRAINFUL MEDIA.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“PUT YOUR DEVICES AWAY.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“How to Be Observant”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“Personal conversations at events or meetings Listening to live speakers or TED Talks Entertainment Books Museums Magazines and newspapers Travel!”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“How do I resolve a dispute with Expedia?
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― Rohit Bhargava

“Breaking down an argument or complex situation into its relevant components helps you understand it and explain it to others. Pilots, for example, use detailed checklists to ensure they don’t miss a step before taking off, an elegant solution for making the complex more understandable.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

“shift from hierarchies to networks”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Naming Questions: How to Ensure You Have an Effective Trend Name”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future

“but I viewed the rise of the maker movement of people who want to create something on their own (which 3D printing certainly enables) was a trend worth watching.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future