Seth's Blog : Speed is relative



Speed is relative

Take a time-traveling Ben Franklin for a ride in your Prius and you'll give him a heart attack.

Meanwhile, you're driving down the highway while eating a muffin and texting at the same time.

We can clearly get used to more than we expect. We can learn to live an a space station orbiting the Earth, and we can learn to sit in zazen meditation for 18 hours without moving.

It's not what you are capable of. It's what are you hoping to accomplish...

       

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Seth's Blog : The top of the pile



The top of the pile

Every busy person has a pile.

That's what makes them busy.

And few busy people show up at work eagerly seeking more stuff they can add to the pile.

Which means that when you interrupt a busy person with your new project, new offer, emergency, need to know, memo, update, offer or invitation...

    it's only going to be acted upon if it's worth being at the top of the pile.

Not worthy for you to put it there. Worthy for the person you're interrupting to put it there.

We need an empathy of attention. Attention is something that can't be refunded or recalled. Once it's gone, it's gone.

So, what have you done to earn it?

       

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Seth's Blog : It's never been as easy to be an intellectual



It's never been as easy to be an intellectual

Do you click through to see the underlying data?

Are you aware of both the status quo and the argument against it?

Have you done the reading?

Are you comfortable asking, "why?"

Do you know how it works?

When someone knows more about something than you do, are you willing to catch up?

If the data makes it clear that you've taken the wrong position, are you eager to change your mind?

Are you interested in having a spirited conversation about the way things are, the way they were, they way they might become?

Can you set aside your worldview, at least for a few minutes, to consider an alternative way to look at the situation?

Along the way, Intellectual with a capital "I" got a bad reputation, the kind of person you want nothing to do with. But the small "i" kind, the person who cares enough to do the work... we need that, badly.

It's never been easier, but sometimes, it seems as if it's never been less popular.

       

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