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In the spirit of continuous learning, I've been thinking about what the next iteration of this missive might look like. I have a list of things to try to help me make good decisions. I would be very grateful if you could take this ONE Question survey about what would make the experience better for you. (or you can reply and send your thoughts that way.)

No new articles this week. I'm sharing a couple of past articles that continue to be very popular.
 

Articles:

The Three Pillars of Persuasive Speech: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
The art of persuasion is as old as human kind. Before we can sell anyone anything—a product, a service, an experience, but also an idea—we must persuade them. Read more.
 
The Paradox of our Age. We should not be afraid to recognize the contributions of others. Rather, we should learn to recognize them, so we can build on those ideas as countless writers, scientists, etc. have done to bring us to where we are. Read more.

More original content on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
 
Read More, Think Better

In a world were technology is taking over so many jobs, including the more sophisticated like automated anesthesiology, our roles will shift. The skills of deep human interaction are still needed and even more valuable. This is the main theme of Humans are Underrated.  While technology continues to eliminate some jobs, it creates the need for new ones. It's been happening since the dawn of time.

We're moving from the Information Age to a new Relationship Age. The value is relationship-building, collaboration with others, brainstorming and leading. To remain relevant, we need to master these uniquely human abilities.


Thinking+Doing:

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The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”

Imagine going to a concert, and getting your phone sealed into a locked bag. You'll have no choice but listen to the music and participate with the others in the space. What does that feel like? It turns out it makes the experience worth having.

A "no-phones policy illuminated something about smartphone use that’s hard to see when it’s so ubiquitous: our phones drain the life out of a room. They give everyone a push-button way to completely disengage their mind from their surroundings, while their body remains in the room, only minimally aware of itself. Essentially, we all have a risk-free ripcord we can pull at the first pang of boredom or desire for novelty, and of course those pangs occur constantly."
 
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02.
On being lost

If you’re going to go down a rabbit hole this weekend, then starting with an acknowledgment that you’re lost is a good way to go. How a CEO developed his strategy is a valuable lesson in humility and true learning - not just reading a neat list of ingredients and checklists, but internalizing the lessons and acting on the information to map your strategy.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to go through the journey by following the links at the bottom of this post. Your reward, Wardley Maps — a combo of diagrams and topographical maps that reveal business stratagems.
 
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03.
No More "Struggle Porn"

This article has been making the rounds. “Struggle porn” is a "masochistic obsession with pushing yourself harder, listening to people tell you to work harder, and broadcasting how hard you’re working."

It has has "normalized sustained failure. It’s made it acceptable to fly to Bali and burn through your life savings trying to launch an Amazon dropshipping business. Made it reasonable to keep living on your parents money for years after graduation while you try to become #instafamous. Made LinkedIn into a depressingly hilarious circlejerk for people who look way too excited to be having their headshot taken."

"Working hard is great, but struggle porn has a dangerous side effect: not quitting. When you believe the normal state of affairs is to feel like you’re struggling to make progress, you’ll be less likely to quit something that isn’t going anywhere."

Struggle porn is the term that encapsulates a problem that has been building in social media for several years.
 
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04.
The Differences Between Being Past, Present, and Future-Oriented According to Philip Zimbardo.

Our treatment of time depends on culture, perception, and state of mind. Reorienting how we think about what happens to us is helpful.

"many of life’s puzzles can be solved by simply understanding our own time perspective and that of others. Lots of conflict we have with people is really a conflict in the different time perspectives. Once you’re aware of that you stop making negative attributions like, you're dumb or you’re childish or you're pig-headed or you're authoritarian. It’s really the most simple idea in the world."
 
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05.
The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler.

"A growing number of scholars, drawn from a wide swath of disciplines — neuroscience, philosophy, computer science — now argue that this aptitude for cognitive time travel, revealed by the discovery of the default network, may be the defining property of human intelligence."

Technology might be keeping us too grounded in the present moment, it looks like what our mind needs is more time to wander.
 
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