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Flow Theory
🏕Indians in the Shuswap region of Canada🍁, were settled down in a place filled with resources, and life was good, and they had everything they needed… but the elders 👴🏼 would make sure that the entire village would just pack up and move to a new location every 25 or 30 years 🧐 This way, they knew they would have NEW PLACES TO EXPLORE🌲and hunt 🎣 and fish and NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME… 🤔 😩You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO CHALLENGING, otherwise you’ll have ANXIETY.🥱You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO EASY FOR YOUR SKILLS either, otherwise you’ll be BORED. It’s when you balance these…
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Self-love
✍️ “L’homme est un mécanisme que l’amour-propre remonte chaque jour.” “Man is a mechanism that self-love builds up every day.” De Louis Dumur
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Foundations of traditions
🏯Every 20 years, locals tear down the Ise Jingu grand shrine, only TO REBUILD IT ANEW 🤔 📜They have been doing this for around 1,300 years. The process of rebuilding the wooden structure every couple decades helped to PRESERVE the original architect’s design against the otherwise eroding effects of time ⛩ There is also a belief of the DEATH and RENEWAL OF NATURE and the IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS 🎋 In addition to reinvigorating spiritual and community bonds, the tradition KEEPS JAPANESE ARTISAN SKILLS ALIVE. It also involves the wish that Japanese TRADITIONAL CULTURE should be TRANSMITTED to the next generation 🎎. The renewal of the buildings and of the treasures has…
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It pays to pause
🤔 The situation is not always as cut-and-dried as it first appears‼️ When volunteers are shown a film of a driver CUTTING ACROSS LANES 😠 they will almost unanimously apportion BLAME. They will infer that he is SELFISH, IMPATIENT and OUT OF CONTROL🤬. And this inference may turn out to be true… After all, the driver may have had the sun in his eyes. He may have been swerving to avoid a car that had veered into his lane. In fact, there are many posible mitigating factors. To most observers LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, THESE DO NOT REGISTER 😵💫. It is not because they don’t think such possibilities are irrelevant,…
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The bubbles floating
📱When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to STEVE JOBS for his approval 😓 Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big 😵💫 The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to make it any smaller.Jobs was quiet for a moment. Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium 🐠, and DROPPED THE IPOD IN THE TANK💦. After it touched bottom, BUBBLES floated to the top 🥸 ❝Those are air bubbles❞ he snapped. ❝That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.❞…
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Getting things done
✍️ ❝Your head is for having ideas – not for holding them!❞ 📖 GETTING THINGS DONE will teach you to:➡︎ Apply the “DO IT, DELEGATE IT, DEFER IT, DROP IT” rule to get your in-box empty 😓➡︎ REASSESS GOALS and stay focused in changing situations 🧐➡︎ Plan and unstick projects 🔭➡︎ OVERCOME FEELINGS of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed 😵💫➡︎ FEEL FINE about what you’re not doing ☺️ This David Allen’s book was hailed as “the definitivebusiness self-help book of the decade”🎖 (Time) when it wasfirst published. Allen’s premise is simple: OUR PRODUCTIVITY IS DIRECTLYPROPORTIONAL TO OUR ABILITY TO RELAX 🧘🏻♀️ ⚠️ Only when our minds are clear 🧠 and…
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Workers are on the move
➜ WORKERS are on the move 🏃🏻‼️ The top three reasons workers QUIT THEIR JOBS are: 📍Uncaring LEADERS 😒 📍Unsustainable EXPECTATIONS of work PERFORMANCE 🚀 📍Lack of CAREER advancement 🎢 And for those who returned to traditional employment, these workers were primarily lured back by WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY 👩🏻💻, with ADEQUATE COMPENSATION 🛍 as a secondary reason. 🤔 Are these reasons different from what they have traditionally been? After pandemic situation, may have the desire for JOB FLEXIBILITY accelerated the other ones?” 🧐 Graph: US Data from McKinsey.
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Never split the difference
⚠️Salespeople don’t become successful by selling things to people, they become successful by SOLVING PROBLEMS. ⚠️ Selling isn’t a matter of trying to convince someone to buy something, but rather a matter of IDENTIFYING 🔭 a person’s needs and SHOWING THEM HOW A PRODUCT/SERVICE CAN HELP. In order to do that, a salesperson needs to be able to qualify his/her leads. And sales qualification is all about asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS⁉️ UNLESS YOU ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, YOU WON’T UNDERSTAND THE RIGHT PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.🧐 📖From Chris Voss’s book, “NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It”, the key to success, especially in very dangerous negotiations, is TACTICAL…

















