Be your own bad guy

When sharing ideas, pure enthusiasm can be an enemy. People seem to recoil from the appearance that you have not considered the other side, and so they put themselves on that other side as a matter of due diligence. This can get ugly, and turn into real opposition. Your tendency may be to push harder […]

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Introduce disfluency

We sift through dozens if not hundreds of pieces of information each day — conversations, articles, news feeds, analytics. What if, after encountering some of the more interesting bits, we jotted down a note or two, or even did a 20 second sketch of what we just saw? A simple switch in our mode of […]

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