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The Game-Changing Power of Playful Productivity
People who wear glasses will flash a bright white square in the reflection of their lenses when they navigate to a new tab. If a virtual meeting is boring, it’s easy to multitask, check emails, and scroll through social media. The person leading the meeting was reading her bullet points off of a slide, which is a sure method to lose the attention of an audience. I raised my virtual hand as she paused to take a breath, took myself [...]
How to Increase Productivity by Separating Thinking and Doing
Every time I picked up the phone, I put another paperclip into the jar on my desk. I was playing a simple game with my work, to make it more entertaining (and achievable). The list in front of me had 10 names and phone numbers. Every time I dialled a number, I put a paperclip into the jar. My goal was to make 50 outbound calls for the week, and by gamifying the activity, I provided myself with clear goals (make [...]
Games help you fail better, to learn from your mistakes
When I was a kid, I spent many happy hours memorizing the colorful lights and sounds of Simon. One of the early handheld electronic games, Simon was both simple and friendly: it would light up one of four colored buttons and play a note, and in response, you would press the same button. Then it would light up two quadrant-sized buttons, playing two notes, and you would press the same two buttons in the same order. Then three buttons, [...]
The 5-Step Creative Process: How to Create Something from Nothing
Leonardo da Vinci looked at the world with the eye of an artist, and the raised eyebrow of a scientist. Arguably one of the most creative people who ever lived, he produced paintings, sculptures, feats of civil engineering, and breakthroughs in anatomy, hydrodynamics, and optics. Less than 20% of da Vinci’s notebooks have survived, totalling roughly 6,000 pages of notes, musings, drawings, and drafts. In his notebooks he collected ideas, from mythical fables to sketches of skeletons, from diagrams of fantastical inventions [...]
Playful Productivity: get more done in good cheer
Work without will or wonder is just drudgery. Play is an overlap of work, will, and wonder, and it transforms how we participate in the act of working.Bringing play into your work increases your capacity to do work well. Think of the seven dwarves, toiling in the mines; they knew to whistle while you work. Play makes the hard work go by faster, and it infuses our work with a dash of joy.Ever since I ran away and joined the circus, I've [...]
Are you a personal brand, or a business brand? (Or…both?) 🤔
When I hosted the Marketing Yourself Masterclass earlier this month (replay here), I asked everyone to answer this question in the chat box: What's the hardest thing about marketing yourself? The answers included: Knowing the difference between marketing my brand vs marketing myself Having a well defined product and knowing how to execute it Getting over the fear The sheer scope of learning all those marketing skills and tools needed to build an online presence. it feels like bragging [...]
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