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Season 1 · Episode 05  —  Sachin Jain · Experience design & Whole Brain® Thinking coach

You Have a Choice

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An experience-design consultant and author of The Ripple Code on the provocative idea that, whatever happens to you, you always have a choice. Work as “a big rock thrown into the pond of your life.”

Ownership and consequences, how our brains develop preferences that quietly decide who we click with and who sets us off, and the part of the mental-health conversation almost nobody has: who looks after the people holding everyone else up?

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In this conversation

  • The question companies dodge — not what you do, but why you exist.
  • The big rock in the pond, and the ripples that reach everything.
  • “You have a choice” — the debate Diego pushes back on.
  • Whole-brain thinking, and why your opposite preference is the one that triggers you.
  • Medication, honestly — and ruling out the biochemistry first.
  • Supporting the supporters — “you can’t give something you don’t have.”

Moments worth holding onto

“Work is like throwing a big-ass rock into the pond of your life.”— Sachin Jain
“You can’t give something you don’t have.”— Sachin Jain
“You have a choice. Choose your next decision carefully.”— Sachin Jain