Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up. If you take 30 minutes to have a conversation with a customer, prospect, or colleague, take 30 seconds to capture a few key details. The future ROI on those 30 seconds could be exponential 📈

Are people who work @bostonsci called BSers? 🤔

If you want to make sure I will never hear your message or respond, send me a Facebook Messenger voice clip 😂

That 15 minute power nap while putting kids in bed hits different

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Are you using Chrome's new(ish) split tabs? It's a game changer for me! bgr.com/2045754/how-to-use-g…

3 ways to hijack the creative part of your brain: 1. Morning Mud we mistakenly think greatness is clean. Like you're supposed to wake up, meditate, cold plunge, sip green tea -- and then produce brilliant work. Nope. You gotta work like a pig. Wake up, and roll in the mud. Seinfeld spent the first 2 hours of his day writing jokes. Why? because if you want great jokes, you gotta write a lot of bad jokes. He did that everyday, for 40 years. Less than 0.1% of those jokes ever made it into his standup set. Quantity is the mother of quality. b..bu..buut what about writer's block? "there's no writers block" he said. "there IS scared. there IS lazy. But there's no writers block." You can cure writers block like it's a simple case of the hiccups: "just sit down and accept your mediocrity" Translation: the harder you try to be great, the more you paralyze your creativity. Instead, be willing to roll in the mud. Make bad stuff, everyday. Ed Sheeran: "I don't try to be great. When I walk in the studio, I remind myself 'today, I must dare to suck'...you can never make a great song, if you're afraid to make a bad song" The first 2 hours of the day. Sit down and create. Before you check the news, twitter, and stock market. BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BRAIN... make something. Coders code. Writers write. Musicians play music. It's not going to be good. It's not SUPPOSED to be good. Good comes later. You will only be as great as you're willing to be bad. 2. Engineered Rest If you're reading this - you work too much, and it's suffocating your creativity. All great work is on the other side of a breakthru idea. How do you get a breakthrough? 3 places: 1) in water 2) in motion 3) after a nap Ever notice you get your best ideas in the shower? That's because your brain shifts from Executive Mode (doing tasks) to Default Mode (connecting dots) "Creativity is just connecting things" - Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin (writer of west wing, social network) showers 8x a day when writing scripts. Einstein used to float on a boat without a motor at sea. The coast guard was worried he'd drift away. He said "good, more time to think" Darwin used to go for long walks in nature. He'd kick a stone every lap. He started calling his problems "4 stone problems" and "5 stone problems" JK Rowling came up with Harry Potter on a train. Edison, Einstein, Salvador Dali all took very short naps, and woke themselves up (holding a key, or metal ball that would drop and clang when they fell asleep) - because the brain enters a hypogogic state which allows for creative connections. Showers, Naps, Swimming, Walking -- these look lazy. What's more important to you: Looking productive or being productive? Just like athletes and bodybuilders use sleep to grow their muscles - you must give yourself permission to relax. Clock out so your subconscious mind can clock in. 3. THINK INSIDE THE BOX Creativity loves constraints. Dr. Suess was an up and coming writer. His editor bet him $100 he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words. "it was damn tough. but that's what made it fun. It gave it that bounce" The book (Green Eggs and Ham) went on to be his all-time best selling book. The lie we're told is that you need to "think outside the box" If you study the great ones, you see they do the opposite. They put themselves INTO a tight box. Fewer options. Tight deadlines. Less features. ^these are the tools of the master creators that's just a taste, reply DM if you want me to DM you the full list

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Thank tou @calcsam for the awesome books! I’m a huge fan of your work and I can’t wait to dive into these!

Sam Parr made a video about us hanging out and what he learned from it: “The people who are the best in the world at what they do, they're not two or three times better than the second or third place, they're a 100 or a 1,000 times better. And I've seen this a bunch of times. The most recent example was the other day with my friend David Senra. He has this podcast called Founders. It's one of the biggest, best podcasts I've ever listened to. It's very popular. Tycoons listen to it and he's become friends with all these amazing people because of it. I was at his studio and he had four (five!) very high-end fancy cameras and the most beautiful, fancy set that I've ever seen. And most podcasters they record with just two DSLR cameras. And I was like, David did these four (five!) fancy cameras actually matter compared to the two normal cameras that everyone like me uses. And without skipping a beat he said: “I'm trying to be the best in the world. Everything matters.” And then he just carried on with the conversation. He wasn't performing. That wasn't a performative answer. And the second thing that I learned the other day with David, when you're around these people who have this energy where they just feel like they're going to take over the world: That's contagious. I know that’s contagious because I still feel that way after hanging out with David. It's Sunday now. I was with him on Friday. And so this is a reminder to go and hang out with the best people you can. It wears off on you.”

Someday, they will teach physics courses on the blast radius of AirPods leaving the case when you drop it.

Huge kudos to @Bonobos. It’s so rare for a company of any size to embody old-school principles of real customer service and gratitude. Love shopping there ❤️

Have you tried @superwhisper? It has taken me a little while to build the muscle memory, but I am blown away by how much faster it makes me composing messages, emails, and anything else.

“In the Kingdom of God, the King stops and says, ‘I see you.’” Thank you @eugenecho for sharing with us today. It definitely blessed and convicted 🙏

OMG @nickgraynews this is YOU!!! Complete with name tags and all. Your new walk up song for speaking events 🕺

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The 'no-reason' text that changes everything Ever stared at your phone thinking "I should reach out to..." but then immediately talked yourself out of it? I've been there. We all have. Last week, I scrolled through my contacts and spotted someone I hadn't spoken to in months. My brain immediately served up its greatest hits of excuses: "They're probably too busy." "It's been too long, it'll be awkward." "I should have something important to say first." But here's what I've learned after years of building relationships: most people won't take action. The fear of rejection keeps us stuck. And that creates your opportunity. Instead of crafting the perfect message with a clever reason to connect, I simply sent: "Hey! You came to mind this morning. Hope you're doing well!" No agenda. No ask. Just human connection. The response? Not only did they reply within minutes, but they shared they'd been thinking of me too but felt awkward reaching out after so long. Try it today. Find one person you've lost touch with. Send that simple "you came to mind" text. No complexity, no agenda required. Remember, as Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." What's the worst that could happen? They don't respond? That's where you are now anyway. But what if they do? #relatableposts #mindsetofgreatness

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