Playing to your true potential with Deepak Jayaraman

Deepak Jayaraman's mission is to help people play to potential. He strives to do it through his advisory work as a coach and sounding board, as a podcaster and as an author. As an advisor, Deepak works with Leaders and Organizations with a growth mindset and helps them play to their full potential. Deepak has been curating the Play to Potential Podcast since Dec 2016.In this episode, Subbu and Deepak discuss Deepak's unconventional career path, navigating the 'messy' midlife, the paradox of self-awareness, discovering our values and a whole lot more.Key topics covered:Why Deepak chose an unconventional career path Lessons from long distance runningGetting to Work-life harmonyWhat inspired Deepak to write his book - Play To PotentialType 1 v/s Type 2 personalitiesHow to navigate the 'messy middle' of lifeWhy it's OK to let go of the trapezeThe paradox of self-awarenessCultivating internal and external self-awarenessThree ways to discovering our values and principlesThe FLAVOUR Model of leadership"Where to play" is the most strategic question6 inspiring stories of people living a FLAVOUR-ful lifeCrafting a FLAVOUR-ful work cultureThe word-ball gameMidlife is the time for opportunitiesBeing fluid about our identities