Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to adapt to different speaking situations
How to engage with an audience
How to use body language effectively
'Give it 5 minutes'
Give someone's ideas some time to set in before you start arguing against them. Five minutes represents “think”, not react. Because usually, the faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often.
573
1.01K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Asking questions vs. pushing back
- Pushing back means you already think you know.
- Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions.
431
640 reads
Dismissing an idea
... is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy.
The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.
339
576 reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Problem solver. Award-winning reader. Devoted food geek. Certified travel evangelist. Incurable explorer.
Related collections
More like this
Slippery slope
This fallacy involves arguing against a position because you think the ideas would start a chain reaction of bad things, even though you don't have evidence to support your claim.
Common phrase: "If we do that, then what's next?"
Build good habits in two minutes
The “two-minute rule” has two parts.
First, if something takes less than two minutes, do it now. Next, start building new habits for two minutes at a time. The rule for this is: When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. The idea is to ...
Write For Just Fifteen Minutes
Professional writers rarely write for more than five or so hours a day because writing is mentally exhausting. This means you can get a lot done in a short amount of time.
You might not have five hours to write, but almost everyone has fifteen minutes. To keep yourself focused as ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates