Hey, I’m Manu 👋🏽
For every 20 people in need of mental health care, only 8 access treatment, only 3 receive minimally acceptable treatment, and only 1 fully benefits.1As a doctor, innovator, and coach, I spend my professional life trying to improve these statistics.I work with patients to help them recover from mental illness, and collaborate with startups to bring the benefits of frontier technology to the frontlines of mental health services.At Aevia Mind, I build thinking partnerships to help individuals discover and achieve their most valued goals.The insights and tools I pick up along the way are shared in my blog: The Mind, Explored.
Most Popular Articles
• Are You the Driver or the Passenger?
• Does Stress Hurt You or Help You?
• Inside the Mind of Michael Jordan
If you're interested in working together, let's connect.
1. Roland J, Lawrance E, Insel T, Christensen H. The digital mental health revolution. Doha: WISH, 2020. ISBN 978-1-913991-00-5.
Hey, I’m Manu 👋🏽
For every 20 people in need of mental health care, only 8 access treatment, only 3 receive minimally acceptable treatment, and only 1 fully benefits.1As a doctor, innovator, and coach, I spend my professional life trying to improve these statistics.I work with patients to help them recover from mental illness, and collaborate with startups to bring the benefits of frontier technology to the frontlines of mental health services.At Aevia Mind, I build thinking partnerships to help individuals discover and achieve their most valued goals.The insights and tools I pick up along the way are shared in my blog: The Mind, Explored.
Most Popular Articles
• Are You the Driver or the Passenger?
• Does Stress Hurt You or Help You?
• Inside the Mind of Michael JordanIf you're interested in working together, let's connect.
1. Roland J, Lawrance E, Insel T, Christensen H. The digital mental health revolution. Doha: WISH, 2020. ISBN 978-1-913991-00-5.
Contact
Get in touch:
Feel free to connect on LinkedIn, Instagram, or email with any thoughts, questions, or ideas.
Speaking Engagements and Workshops:
I design and deliver workshops to companies, schools, and public institutions on what makes a healthy mind. Please reach out if you wish to request a speaking engagement or workshop.
Health Care Advice Disclaimer:
I am unable to respond to requests for physical or mental health advice. While my newsletter and articles explore the nature of the mind for insights and tools, they cannot and are not intended to be a substitute for a licensed healthcare professional that can assess and review your specific condition.You should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or psychological condition you may have and should seek the assistance of an appropriately licensed health care professional for any such conditions. I am also unable to offer medical referrals.
Dr Manu Sidhu
Contact
Get in touch:
Feel free to connect on LinkedIn, Instagram, or email with any thoughts, questions, or ideas.
Speaking Engagements and Workshops:
I design and deliver workshops to companies, schools, and public institutions on what makes a healthy mind. Please reach out if you wish to request a speaking engagement or workshop.
Health Care Advice Disclaimer:
I am unable to respond to requests for physical or mental health advice. While my newsletter and articles explore the nature of the mind for insights and tools, they cannot and are not intended to be a substitute for a licensed healthcare professional that can assess and review your specific condition.You should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or psychological condition you may have and should seek the assistance of an appropriately licensed health care professional for any such conditions. I am also unable to offer medical referrals.
Dr Manu Sidhu
.
Favourite Quotes
Quotes, particularly from the greats, can strike at the heart of a meaningful lesson and leave us stunned with clarity.For as long as I live, I intend on collecting the quotes that have had this effect on me.And this is where I keep them.
On the wise man and the fool:
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at common things.” - Confucius
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” - Seneca
“A great man is hard on himself. A small man is hard on others.”- Confucius
“Those who talk should do and those who do should talk.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” - Mark Twain
On understanding what is true:
“Life can only be understood by looking backward; but it must be lived looking forward.” - Soren Kierkegaard
"The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another." - Richard Feynman
“Knowledge is learning something everyday. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” - Zen Proverb
On authenticity:
“It took me years to learn how to play like myself.” - Miles Davis
“Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.” - Kevin Kelly
“You are here for no other purpose than to realise your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the art to all that you encounter.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“Change happens best when one becomes what one is, not what one wants to be.” - Arnold Beisser
On finding your path:
“The way to discover what you were put on earth for is to go back into your past, list the times you felt most fulfilled, and then see if you can draw a line through them. What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul? What has dominated and delighted at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row, before you. And perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order. The fundamental law of your very self.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.” - Paulo Coelho
On mastering the self:
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu
"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle." - Dalai Lama
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within your way of thinking!” - Marcu Aurelius
“If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.” - Anthony de Mello
“Not wanting something is as good as having it.” - Naval
On the nature of the mind:
“It is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.” - Sam Harris
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
"The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
"The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear." - Prasad Mahes
"Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds." - Unknown
“The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” - Henry David Thoreau
On mindset:
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't - you're right." - Henry Ford
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” - Viktor Frankl
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Press on, press on, press on.” - Eliud Kipchoge (Marathon World Record Holder)
On life being what you make of it:
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - John Wooden
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Soren Kierkegaard
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
On what to focus on:
“Three things in life - your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it.” - Naval Ravikant
“Elimination from accumulation is the process of finding what you want.” - Charlie Chaplin
On failure:
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison
“I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan
“My willingness to fail is the reason I succeed.” - Vinod Khosla
“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.” - Quentin Tarantino
On how to succeed:
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” - Mark Twain
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle
On creativity:
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
“Creativity is about connecting ideas together, especially ideas that don’t seem to be connected.” - Tiago Forte
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty; you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it." - Osho
“Necessity is the mother of innovation.” - A proverb that evolved from Plato’s quote: “Our need will be the real creator.”
“I write to find out what I think.” - Stephen King
“Create like a child and edit like a scientist.” - Tyler the Creator
On growth:
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf
“We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets.” - Henry Ford
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
On habits:
"First, we make our habits, then our habits make us." - Charles Noble
“Meditate to upgrade your software. Workout to upgrade your hardware.” - Unknown
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself to it.” - Benjamin Franklin
On who you become rather than what you achieve:
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” - Zig Ziglar
"The measure of a person's greatness is not the number of servants they have, but the number of people they serve." - John Hagee
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
On how to treat others:
“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.” - Jean de La Bruyère
“Deal with weaker states as you think it appropriate for stronger states to deal with you.” - Isocrates
“Treat your parents as you would have your children treat you. Treat your children as you would have had your parents treat you.” - Nassim Taleb
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey
On society:
"The greatness of a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members." - Mahatma Gandhi
“Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Get in touch to:
let me know which quote resonates most with you
share any great quotes that aren't on here (yet), or
give me a nudge if I have mistakenly misquoted anyone.
Dr Manu Sidhu
.
Favourite Quotes
Quotes, particularly from the greats, can strike at the heart of a meaningful lesson and leave us stunned with clarity.For as long as I live, I intend on collecting quotes that have had this effect on me.And this is where I keep them.
On the wise man and the fool:
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at common things.” - Confucius
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” - Seneca
“A great man is hard on himself. A small man is hard on others.”- Confucius
“Those who talk should do and those who do should talk.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” - Mark Twain
On understanding what is true:
“Life can only be understood by looking backward; but it must be lived looking forward.” - Soren Kierkegaard
"The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another." - Richard Feynman
“Knowledge is learning something everyday. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” - Zen Proverb
On authenticity:
“It took me years to learn how to play like myself.” - Miles Davis
“Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.” - Kevin Kelly
“You are here for no other purpose than to realise your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the art to all that you encounter.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“Change happens best when one becomes what one is, not what one wants to be.” - Arnold Beisser
On finding your path:
“The way to discover what you were put on earth for is to go back into your past, list the times you felt most fulfilled, and then see if you can draw a line through them. What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul? What has dominated and delighted at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row, before you. And perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order. The fundamental law of your very self.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.” - Paulo Coelho
On mastering the self:
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu
"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle." - Dalai Lama
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within your way of thinking!” - Marcu Aurelius
“If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.” - Anthony de Mello
“Not wanting something is as good as having it.” - Naval
On the nature of the mind:
“It is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.” - Sam Harris
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
"The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
"The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear." - Prasad Mahes
"Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds." - Unknown
“The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” - Henry David Thoreau
On mindset:
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't - you're right." - Henry Ford
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” - Viktor Frankl
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Press on, press on, press on.” - Eliud Kipchoge (Marathon World Record Holder)
On life being what you make of it:
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - John Wooden
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Soren Kierkegaard
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
On what to focus on:
“Three things in life - your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it.” - Naval Ravikant
“Elimination from accumulation is the process of finding what you want.” - Charlie Chaplin
On failure:
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison
“I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan
“My willingness to fail is the reason I succeed.” - Vinod Khosla
“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.” - Quentin Tarantino
On how to succeed:
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” - Mark Twain
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle
On creativity:
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
“Creativity is about connecting ideas together, especially ideas that don’t seem to be connected.” - Tiago Forte
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty; you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it." - Osho
“Necessity is the mother of innovation.” - A proverb that evolved from Plato’s quote: “Our need will be the real creator.”
“I write to find out what I think.” - Stephen King
“Create like a child and edit like a scientist.” - Tyler the Creator
On growth:
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf
“We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets.” - Henry Ford
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
On habits:
"First, we make our habits, then our habits make us." - Charles Noble
“Meditate to upgrade your software. Workout to upgrade your hardware.” - Unknown
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself to it.” - Benjamin Franklin
On who you become rather than what you achieve:
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” - Zig Ziglar
"The measure of a person's greatness is not the number of servants they have, but the number of people they serve." - John Hagee
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
On how to treat others:
“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.” - Jean de La Bruyère
“Deal with weaker states as you think it appropriate for stronger states to deal with you.” - Isocrates
“Treat your parents as you would have your children treat you. Treat your children as you would have had your parents treat you.” - Nassim Taleb
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey
On society:
"The greatness of a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members." - Mahatma Gandhi
“Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Get in touch to:
let me know which quote resonates most with you
share any great quotes that aren't on here (yet), or
give me a nudge if I have mistakenly misquoted anyone.
Dr Manu Sidhu