Your boss asks a request that makes no sense, you want to ask why?
This can be challenging.
Instead ask how?
This makes them have to understand what they are asking and you might then get the why you were looking for.
Tag Archives: Psychology
Motion vs Action
Motion (Thinking) feels like you are doing something productive and moving you towards your goal.
Action (Doing) actually gets you there but is way more risky because you can fail.
Choose action over motion.
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Quick Review We came from the water and in the water, there are many positive experiences we can still have. There are artefacts from thousands of years showing human hunting and interaction on and in the water, yet we have thousands of deaths a year from drowning because we have lost a connection with water.Continue reading “Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui”
Culture is what you allow
You don’t make your culture by what you do, but by what you allow.
People will rise to the level of the bar you set, if you set it low they might act that way.
Set a high bar and watch them rise to it.
Fighting On Death Ground
Understanding what “ground” you are on can help you define what strategy to engage with your competition and also how they might be trying to engage with you.
Don’t Fight The Rip
Sometimes your first instinct is not a good one.
Fighting an ocean rip is a unachievable task. Riding the rip to a better spot to get out and use the waves to bring you back to sure is a counterintuitive but safer option.
You might be the c*nt
It can feel like other people act like c*nts when they don’t agree with you.
Trying to understand someone else’s point of view can help you understand your position better.
Blindly thinking you are right because you said it, and not looking critically at yourself might mean that you are the cunt.
Don’t fix it in post
Creativity doesn’t happen with an abundance of resources, it is born from the presence of constraints.
Being put in a box doesn’t limit your creativity, it reveals it.
Ask How?
It is really hard to change someone’s mind about anything. But, if you ask them to explain something to you, it might make them change their own mind.
Joe Rogan, Aristotle, and nuance.
Being confronted by views that challenge your belief you want to be open the merits of the other sides arguments.
Remember that nuance is hard, context matters when trying to understand something you don’t agree with.
Enter into the conversation trying to learn, not trying to win.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 