External References

As a follow up to this topic, we recommended reading:

Triple Helix of human Flourishing

How to make kindness your default response

How Love becomes unconditional and compassion flows as naturally as breathing

A quality much needed in a divided world but not often encountered is compassion. Compassion is a way of connecting the love and self-awareness within yourself to another person.

Overcoming the myth of Seperatedness

In the context of leadership, separation manifests as leadership by domination—those trying to achieve power over others rather than finding power with others. Albert Einstein reflected on the place of human beings in the universe.

50 Short Habits of Lifelong Learners

Successful lifelong learners nurture their intellectual curiosities. Helen Keller, Einstein, Confucius, da Vinci, Richard Feynman, and many of history’s geniuses were lifelong learners. They were self-learners. They never settled but were committed.

About the author

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Akhilesh Gupta

Akhil Gupta is the founder and director of Universal Enlightenment Forum, a 501(c)3 corporation. He has been associated with Harvard University since 2015, first as a fellow at Advanced Leadership Initiative and later as an Impact Leader in residence in 2023. Akhil currently serves on The Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard Divinity School, on the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and on the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Chan Initiative on Health and Homelessness.
He is the author of two books “Bridges Across Humanity” published in 2023 and “To Flourish is To Love Learn Play” to be published in December 2025.He was inspired to write these books while studying at Harvard University.
Prior to Harvard, he was the founder Chairman of Blackstone India & Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group. He also served in senior positions at Reliance Industries Limited and Hindustan Unilever
Akhil has a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He served on the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 2014 to 2021

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