We live in a world where every conversation can turn into an argument. Pew Research found that we are more polarised, more divided than we have ever been in history. It means we are not listening to each other.  A conversation requires talking and listening, and somewhere we have lost the balance between them. In the 21st century, it's more important to sustain coherent, confident conversations. We might not like the person or might deeply disagree with them, but we should still be able to have a great conversation with them.

The art of conversation

Be present in that moment.
Don't look at your cellphone. Don't think about what you're having for dinner. If you want out of the conversation, then get out, but don't be half in half out.

Don't multitask

Enter every conversation assuming you have something to learn as everybody is an expert in something. A true conversation means setting aside your personal opinion. In sensing this acceptance, the speaker will become less vulnerable and more willing to open up.

Don't pontificate

Start your questions with who, what, when, where, why or how.
For example, instead of asking "Were you terrified?", which will produce a "yes" or "no" answer, try asking, "How did that feel?" They might have to think about it, but you'll get a much better response.

Use open-ended questions

We may listen to someone who talks for several minutes, and then thoughts will pop into your mind and draw your attention away from the conversation. Stories and ideas will come to you, but you need to let them come and let them go.

Go with the flow

People on the radio are more aware that they're going on the record and will be more careful about what they claim to be an expert in. Do the same. Err on the side of caution.

If you don't know, say that you don't know

If they're talking about losing a loved one, don't start talking about the time you lost a loved one. If they talk about the trouble at work, don't tell them about your own troubles at work. It's not the same. The conversation is not about you. You don't need to prove how amazing you are or how much you've suffered.

Don't equate your experience with theirs

It's condescending. It's boring. Yet we all tend to do it a lot, especially in work conversations or with our kids. We have a point to make that we keep rehashing. Don't do it.

Try not to repeat yourself

People don't care about the little details you struggle to remember. The names, dates, years, they don't care. What they care about is you. What you're like, what you have in common.

Stay out of the weeds

The ability to really listen is perhaps the most important skill you could develop.
Why don't we listen?
<ul>
<li>We like to rather talk because when we talk, we're in control. We don't have to listen to anything we're not interested in.</li>
<li>We get distracted. We can listen to 500 words per minute, yet the average person talks at about 225 words per minute. So our minds fill in the other 275 words.</li>
</ul>

Listen

A good conversation is brief enough to retain interest but long enough to cover the subject.

Be brief

A collection of 7 Ted talks to inspire you and help you get better at CSM

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Understand yourself and those around you.

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Top 7 TED Talks On Customer Success

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed." Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Become a TED Member: http://ted.com/membership Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com

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When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.

The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. 

Become a TED Member: http://ted.com/membership
Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks
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Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED

TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com

The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know.

TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy. For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. If we can learn to trust one another, we can make great strides in human progress. But if trust is broken, and we're going to rebuild it, it is helpful to understand its various parts.

Build on trust

<ul><li>Authenticity. If you sense that someone is being authentic, you are more likely to trust them.</li><li>Logic. You are more likely to trust if you sense real rigour in logic.</li><li>Empathy. If you believe that empathy is directed towards you, you are more likely to trust them.</li></ul>When just one of these three is broken, trust is threatened.

What creates trust

People don't believe that we're mostly in it for them and they believe that we are too self-distracted. With so many demands on our time, we often lack the time and space that empathy requires. Remedy: Identify where, when and to whom you're likely to offer your distraction. This is when, where, and to whom you are likely to withhold your empathy. In those instances, put away your phone, look at them and listen to them.

Lack of empathy is the most common trust-breaker

There are two forms of logic wobbles.<ol><li>The quality of your logic.</li><li>Your ability to communicate the logic.</li></ol>Remedy for accurately communicating logic: Instead of telling a story with twists and turns and then getting to the point, start with a half-point and give supporting evidence. This way, people can still access your ideas, but you get credit for it even if you get cut off mid-way.

Logic wobbles

If we hold back on who we are, we're less likely to be trusted, less likely to be given stretch assignments, less likely to be promoted, and so on. Remedy:<ul><li>Pay more attention to your authentic self and less to what you think people want to hear from you.</li><li>Set the conditions that make it safe to be authentic, then celebrate who you are.</li><li>Cherish it for what it is.</li></ul>

Authenticity problems

Understanding the pillars of trust can help to build and rebuild it.

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says. Check out more TED Talks: http://www.ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/TED

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Leadership & Management

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says.

Check out more TED Talks: http://www.ted.com

The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more.

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How to build (and rebuild) trust | Frances Frei

This video takes us to NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius and home to the closest pair of supermassive black holes found to date. The pair is also the one with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes - observed to be just 1600 light-years apart in the sky. Each of the two black holes is located at the centre of one of the two bright nuclei in NGC 7727. The two black holes are on a collision course, doomed to crash together and merge into one giant black hole probably within the next 250 million years.

The Closest Pair Of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Detected.

#shorts #facts #space This video takes us to NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius and home to the closest pair of supermassive black holes found to date. The pair is also the one with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes - observed to be just 1600 light-years apart in the sky. Each of the two black holes is located at the centre of one of the two bright nuclei in NGC 7727 visible in the final part of the video. The two black holes are on a collision course, doomed to crash together and merge into one giant black hole probably within the next 250 million years. The close-up view of the central region of NGC 7727 and its two nuclei was taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2; VST ATLAS team; Voggel et al. Know more about… Space : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6kTsDI4xfnAISJIMWKxkPoL9qoU9Hwv General knowledge : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6kTsDI4xfn6hHfyZBGiw-atw0its-7Q Science & Technology : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6kTsDI4xfmONVgfMhMbstBLpZuyJCP2 Health : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6kTsDI4xflrlYCGE0EIyWXoBoNG81-r 🙏Requests🙏 I requested to you (My viewers) please subscribe to my channel and if you like video then please press like button.All youtubers are doing hard work in video making and your like, Share, Subscribes are fruits for our hard works. You also follow me on: - Facebook: www.facebook.com/thetechers You can visit my Website : www.knowledgevaccination.blogspot.com This video is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non - profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All rights and credit go directly to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Thank you all of you...🙏

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Space

#shorts #facts #space 
This video takes us to NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius and home to the closest pair of supermassive black holes found to date. The pair is also the one with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes - observed to be just 1600 light-years apart in the sky. Each of the two black holes is located at the centre of one of the two bright nuclei in NGC 7727 visible in the final part of the video. The two black holes are on a collision course, doomed to crash together and merge into one giant black hole probably within the next 250 million years. The close-up view of the central region of NGC 7727 and its two nuclei was taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2; VST ATLAS team; Voggel et al.

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If you want your idea to stick, to make an impact, to foster change, you should make it simple and digestible.

Your Idea Should Be Simple

The lead is the journalist term of the core of your idea, if you want you idea to last, put the lead first, and there get into more detail.Be careful of putting Your core idea last and ask yourself, after the first slide/ First minute of the pitch, will the person listening to you understand the main thing you try to say?

Dont Burry The Lead

Proverbs like “its better to have 1 bird in your hand than two on the tree” stick. They do so because they demonstrate a simple principle with simple image We can recognize.

Proverbs Are Super-Sticky

“Emojis for texting is like facial expression for conversation.”By using analogies, we connect our idea to other people’s knowledge, which makes the idea extremely clear. Instead of building our statement from nothing, we start with a vision and build upon it.

Use Analogies!

3 ways to make your ideas better, by simplifying them.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea’s chances—essential reading in the “fake news” era. Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists—struggle to make them “stick.” In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits. Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Switch.

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Productivity

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Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick. “Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post   Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists—struggle to make them “stick.”  In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits. Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.   Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.

Chip Heath is the professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford.He co-wrote a book titled Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Dan Heath.

Chip Heath

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center. Dan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. from the Plan II Honors Program from the University of Texas at Austin.He co-wrote a book titled Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Chip Heath.

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Made to Stick

I bet you already know how to read a book. You were taught in elementary school.But do you know how to read well ?There is a difference between reading for understanding and reading for information.If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t given much thought to how you read. And how you read makes a massive difference to knowledge accumulation.A lot of people confuse knowing the name of something with understanding.

Reading For Understanding And Reading For Information

A useful heuristic: Anything easily digested is reading for information. Consider the newspaper, are you truly learning anything new? Do you consider the writer your superior when it comes to knowledge in the subject? Odds are probably not. That means you’re reading for information. It means you’re likely to parrot an opinion that isn’t yours as if <a href="https://fs.blog/2013/04/the-work-required-to-have-an-opinion/">you had done the work</a>. This is how most people read.

If It’s Easily Digested, It’s Reading For Information

Learning something insightful requires mental work. It’s uncomfortable. If it doesn’t hurt, you’re not learning. You need to find writers who are more knowledgeable on a particular subject than yourself. By narrowing the gap between the author and yourself, <a href="https://fs.blog/2013/05/the-buffett-formula-how-to-get-smarter/">you get smarter </a>.

If It Takes Effort, It’s Reading For Understanding

“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Mortimer Adler literally wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671212095/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=farnamstreet-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0671212095&linkId=95f640336f1079ee3b5acafcc3a34a84">the book on reading</a>. In How To Read A Book, Adler identifies four levels of reading:<ol><li>Elementary Reading</li><li>Inspectional Reading</li><li>Analytical Reading</li><li>Syntopical Reading</li></ol>Before we can improve our reading skills, we need to understand the differences in the reading levels. They are thought of as levels because you can’t move to a higher level without a firm understanding of the previous one — they are cumulative.

The Four Levels of Reading

The goal of reading determines how you read. Reading the latest Danielle Steel novel is not the same as reading Plato. If you’re reading for entertainment or information, you’re going to read a lot differently (and likely different material) than reading to increase understanding. While many people are proficient in reading for information and entertainment, few improve their ability to read for knowledge.

How You Read Matches Why You’re Reading

This is the level of reading taught in our elementary schools. If you’re reading this website, you already know how to do this.

1. Elementary Reading

We’ve been taught that skimming and superficial reading are bad for understanding. That is not necessarily the case. Using these tools effectively can increase understanding. Inspectional reading allows us to look at the author’s blueprint and evaluate the merits of a deeper reading experience.Inspectional reading gives you the gist of things.There are two sub-types of inspectional reading.

2. Inspectional Reading

This is meant to be a quick check of the book by 1) reading the preface; 2) studying the table of contents; 3) checking the index; and 4) reading the inside jacket. This should give you sufficient knowledge to understand the chapters in the book, pivotal to the author’s argument. Dip in here and there, but never with more than a paragraph or two. Skimming helps you reach to a decision point: Does this book deserve more of my time and attention? If not, you put it down.

2.1 Systematic Skimming

This is when you just read. Don’t ponder the argument, don’t look things up, don’t write in the margins. If you don’t understand something, move on. What you gain from this quick read will help you later when you go back and put more effort into reading. You now come to another decision point. Now that you have a better understanding of the book’s contents and its structure, do you want to understand it?

2.2 Superficial reading

Francis Bacon once remarked, “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”You can think of analytical reading as doing that chewing and digesting. This is doing the work.Analytical reading is a thorough reading.If inspectional reading is the best reading you can do quickly, analytical reading is the best reading you can do given time. There are 4 rules to analytical reading.

3. Analytical Reading

<ol><li>Classify the book according to kind and subject matter.</li><li>State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity.</li><li>Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole.</li><li>Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.</li></ol>

The 4 Rules To Analytical Reading

You’ll probably notice that while the rules above sound pretty easy, they involve a lot of work. Luckily the inspectional reading you’ve already done has primed you for this.After an inspectional read, you will understand the book and the author’s views.But that doesn’t mean you’ll understand the broader subject. To do that, you need to use syntopical reading to synthesize knowledge from several books on the same subject.

A First Look At How The Levels Come Together

This is also known as comparative reading, and it represents the most demanding and difficult reading of all. Syntopical Reading involves reading many books on the same subject and comparing and contrasting ideas, vocabulary, and arguments.This task is undertaken by identifying relevant passages, translating the terminology, framing and ordering the questions that need answering, defining the issues, and having a conversation with the responses.The goal is not to achieve an overall understanding of any particular book, but rather to understand the subject and develop a deep fluency.

4. Syntopical Reading

There are 5 steps to syntopical reading:<ol><li>Finding the Relevant Passages</li><li>Bringing the Author to Terms</li><li>Getting the Questions Clear</li><li>Defining the Issues</li><li>Analyzing the Discussion</li></ol>

The 5 Steps To Syntopical Reading

You need to find the right books and then the passages that are most relevant to filling your needs. So the first step is an inspectional reading of all the works that you have identified as relevant.

1. Finding the Relevant Passages

In analytical reading, you must identify the keywords and how they are used by the author. This is fairly straightforward. The process becomes more complicated now as each author has probably used different terms and concepts to frame their argument. Now the onus is on you to establish the terms. Rather than using the author’s language, you must use your own. In short, this is an exercise in translation and synthesis.

2. Bringing the Author to Terms

Rather than focus on the problems the author is trying to solve, you need to focus on the questions that you want answered. Just as we must establish our own terminology, so too must we establish our own propositions by shedding light on our problems to which the authors provide answers. It’s important to frame the questions in such a way that all or most of the authors can be interpreted as providing answers. Sometimes we might not get an answer to our questions because they might not have been seen as questions by the authors.

3. Getting The Questions Clear

If you’ve asked a clear question to which there are multiple answers then an issue has been defined. Opposing answers, now translated into your terms, must be ordered in relation to one another. Understanding multiple perspectives within an issue helps you form an intelligent opinion.

4. Defining the Issues 

It’s presumptuous to expect we’ll find a single unchallenged truth to any of our questions. Our answer is the conflict of opposing answers. The value is the discussion you have with these authors. You can now have an informed opinion.

5. Analyzing the Discussion

Reading is all about asking the right questions in the right order and seeking answers.There are 4 main questions you need to ask of every book:<ol><li>What is this book about?</li><li>What is being said in detail, and how?</li><li>Is this book true in whole or in part?</li><li>What of it?</li></ol>***

Becoming a Demanding Reader

Goals of reading. Understanding inspectional, analytical and syntopical reading.

How to properly read a book

We’ve all heard or said that “reading is hard work”. Well, we don’t know the half of it. 

In How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler teaches us the four levels of reading to become a more effective reader. Learning how to read is more than just picking up a book and starting to read.

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Learning & Education

How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler

1. You Are Free to Choose.2. Think for Yourself and Question Authority.3. You Could Die .4. One Person Can Make a Difference.5. Life Is A Miracle.6. The Poor Work for Money, The Rich Have Money Work For Them.7. The Power of Belief.

7 Life Changing Ideas

Life is so precious it's a priceless gift of God. Every moment is a new beginning for me!

There is no more powerful directing force in your life than your beliefs. Each of the 7 ideas in this article has the power to initiate a paradigm shift, that is, a significant change from one view to another, ultimately leading to positive change in your life.

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Habits

Copywriting has to be done according to a formula, a proven sequential outline like AIDA: 
ATTENTION, INTEREST, DESIRE, ACTION.
Your manuscript should:
<ul>
<li>First, get the readers attention</li>
<li>Second, get them interested</li>
<li>Third, make them desire what you are selling</li>
</ul>

The AIDA Formula To Write Better

<ul><li>Compel him to take whatever action is needed to get whatever it is you are selling.</li><li>Describe benefits the prospect gets if he buys our product or service, and remember, you must do even the obvious.</li><li>When you write bullets, the basic pattern should be specific/blind fact, benefit.</li><li>Re-write (by hand) famous ad and marketing copy to get a feel for it.</li></ul>

Advice On Better Marketing Copywriting

<ul><li>Use simple, common, everyday words.</li><li>Write short sentences and short paragraphs.</li><li>Use transition words and phrases to make your writing flow smoothly.</li><li>Ask questions once in a while, and then answer them yourself.</li></ul>

How To Write Well

<ul>
<li>A good writer is one who makes things perfectly clear.</li>
<li>The best writing goes unnoticed.</li>
<li>Your ads should have a crisp, clean appearance.</li>
<li>Go the extra mile in whatever you’re doing to increase professionalism and perception.</li>
<li>Never make a decision when you are HALT: hungry, angry, lonely or tired.</li>
<li>If you offer a promotion, offer a reason to go with it.</li>
<li>"I am offering you this special deal because you (by virtue of some unique circumstance) are so special."</li>
<li>Read your writing out loud to improve it.</li>
<li>Sweat the details. And use exact details in your promotions.</li>
</ul>

Attributes Of A Good Writer

<ol><li>Mind follows the body. A regular exercise routine is not only good for your health, but also clears your mind to set you up for a productive day.</li><li>Find a hot market first. Only then should you begin to look for a product to sell.</li><li>A good writer makes things perfectly clear. Use simple words, short sentences, and many transitions to make your copy flow.</li><li>Get their attention. It doesn’t matter how good your copy is if nobody bothers to read it.</li><li>Use specific details and emotional descriptions. Both will increase your reader’s interest in what you have to say and boost your credibility.</li></ol>

Five Key Takeaways From The Boron Letters

<ul><li>Try things at least twice.</li><li>Just the second attempt at anything hard will be much easier. Not a little bit but by A LOT. It is true of almost everything, not just sports.</li><li>Everyone wants to climb the mountain, but the big difference between those at the top and those still on the bottom is simply a matter of showing up tomorrow to give it just one more shot.</li><li>As someone once said, “Most of the world’s work is done by people who don't feel like getting out of bed.”</li><li>You Don’t Have To Get It Right… You Just Have To Get It Moving!</li><li>Just do it, and keep on moving on.</li></ul>

The Power Of Perseverance

When it comes to accomplishing things, most people fail to even try. There is no benefit in dealing with people who have nothing but negative things to say.
Sometimes there is no use wasting time and energy fighting established beliefs by arguing, and it is better to just silently go about proving or accomplishing your goal.
When most people tell others of any plan to make money, they are met with instant negativity. Once you set out to actually do something which may elevate your status, many people will tell you it can’t be done, or simply isn't worth it.

Overcoming Negativity

<ul><li>Going over and over plans is a good way to make sure everyone is on the same page and remembers small things.</li><li>Write down your goals and go over them every day, not just once a year.</li><li>Sweat the details.</li></ul>

Goals And Planning

<ul><li>A fat, sloppy, or skinny and weak body tends to broadcast to the world that the owner of that body is lacking self-respect.</li><li>Defensive behaviour invites aggressive action.</li><li>Rely on your own strength instead of somebody else’s compassion!</li><li>It is important to know that often, self-reliance is the real motive of great businessmen and not money.</li><li>It doesn’t matter how much you learn if you don’t use what you learn.</li></ul>

Confidence And Self-Reliance

<ul>
<li>Money, in my opinion, especially big money, is most often a by-product of enthusiasm.</li>
<li>The money is where the enthusiasm is. Please remember this!</li>
<li>When hiring, always look for the most enthusiastic person, not necessarily the most qualified.</li>
</ul>

Passion Is Greater Than Profit

<ol><li>You must become a “student of markets.”</li><li>The first and the most important thing you must learn is what people want to buy.</li><li>The way to deduce what people want to buy is to simply observe what they DO buy!</li><li>If you want to be a top-notch marketing man, you have to know how it is. How it really is. Not how people (or you) wish it was or how they think it is. No. You must become a “student of reality.”</li></ol>

A Student Of Marketing

If you and I both owned a hamburger stand and we were in a contest to see who would sell the most hamburgers, what advantages would you most like to have on your side?A) Superior meat to make your hamburgersB) A street corner location with high foot trafficC) The ability to offer the lowest pricesAnswer: NONE OF THE ABOVE! The best advantage of all is a STARVING CROWD.

 The Hamburger Stand

The best list of all is your own customer list.
Nothing will add to your bottom line as fast as selling something new to your existing customers and sourcing new prospects.
Characteristics of “Hot” Lists
<ul>
<li>Recency (most important): The more recently a person has purchased (by mail) something similar to what you are selling, the more receptive he will be to your offer.</li>
<li>Frequency: The more often a person buys a particular item, the higher his desire for that type of production service.</li>
<li>Unit of sale: Those who spend more money on a product.</li>
</ul>

A Hot List Of Your Best Customers

When you get stuck or emotionally jammed up one of the ways to get yourself unclogged and flowing again is just to keep moving. Run. Walk. Jog. Write. Do the dishes.Write from start to finish in one sitting so your different moods on different days don’t seep into your copy and make it disjointed.After the initial copy dump where I pound out all my thoughts for a sales letter on a keyboard, I re-read whatever I wrote and apply the “so what” test.In your attempts to stand out, try and fight any urge to sound like a cliché and use phrases that a reader could finish on their own.

The Copywriting Primer

<ul><li>Use simple common everyday words.</li><li>Write short sentences and short paragraphs.</li><li>Use “transition” words and phrases to make your writing flow smoothly.</li><li>The key is to go through many edits, cutting everything out until cutting any more would be cutting something the customer would like to know.</li><li>Ask questions once in a while and then answer them yourself.</li></ul>

Copywriting Basics

When a person first looks at something you have written it should be something that looks inviting to read.
This means wide margins, a certain amount of white space, double spacing between paragraphs, short words, short sentences, short paragraphs and an attractive, inviting layout.
Whenever you write an ad it should look, in so far as possible, exactly like a rave review written by a reporter.

Good For The Eyes

<ol><li>Most of the time, a person will never alter his original impression. Most of the time he will simply “edit” all new info that comes to him and “process” it in such a way as to validate his original opinion.</li><li>Make sure your promotion has a “crisp” look about it. In other words, the layout should be clean, there should be a lot of contrast, and it should look easy and inviting to read.</li><li>If you use pictures they should be, as a general rule, of an upbeat nature.</li></ol>

A Good First Impression

<ul><li>The first thing to do in the morning? Get outside and get walking.</li><li>Fast one day per week.</li><li>To figure out what people want to buy? Just look at what they do buy.</li><li>Segment your marketing - be specific in who you are targeting, and custom tailor your ads to them.</li><li>Work on subjects you love - the enthusiasm will make it easy.</li><li>Keep two lists - one of tough tasks and another of tasks you can do regardless of mood. That way you can be productive regardless of your state.</li><li>Work in the library, or somewhere else people are working - as social animals, it’s hard for us not to work in places like this.</li></ul>

General Life Advice 

A Beautiful collection of copywriting, marketing and life advice taken from letters written from prison.

A series of letters by history's greatest copywriter Gary C. Halbert, explaining insider tactics and sage wisdom to his youngest son Bond.Once only available as part of a paid monthly premium, The Boron Letters are unique in the marketing universe and now they are a bona fide cult classic among direct response marketers and copywriters around the world.The letters inside are written from a father to a son, in a loving way that goes far beyond a mere sales book or fancy "boardroom" advertising advice...It's more than a Master's Degree in selling & persuasion...it's hands-down the best SPECIFIC and ACTIONABLE training on how to convince people to buy your products or services than I have ever read. The Boron Letters contain knowledge well beyond selling. The letters also explain how to navigate life's hurdles.This marketing classic is personal and easily digestible. Plus... immediately after reading the first chapters, you can go out and make money and a real, noticeable difference in your marketplace. There are very few successful direct response marketers (online or off) who don't owe something to Gary Halbert...and for many of them, The Boron Letters is the crown jewel in their collection.Copywriters and marketers read and re-read The Boron Letters over and over again for a reason.These strategies, secrets and tips are going to be relevant 5, 10, even 100 years from now because they deal honestly with the part of human psychology which never changes, how to convince and convert folks into buyers.Bottom line? Read the first chapter. Get into the flow of Gary's mind. Then read the second. I dare you to NOT finish the entire darn thing. After you put a few of the lessons into practice, you too will find yourself reading The Boron Letters again and again like so many of today's top marketers.If you don't already have your copy get it now. I promise you won't regret it. My best,Lawton Chiles

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Author Margaret Atwood has imagined a future society that imprisons law-abiding citizens ("The Heart Goes Last"), a post-apocalyptic world filled with genetically modified creatures ("Oryx and Crake") and, most famously, a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the privileged ("The Handmaid's Tale").Now, however, she wants to shape a more positive vision of the future.

A Positive Vision of the Future

Next year, the Canadian novelist and poet will lead a new online course titled "Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible." Addressing issues from social inequality to healthcare, the eight-week program will put participants in virtual classrooms with experts from various fields to develop solutions to society's biggest problems."I don't come with pre-formed answers," Atwood told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "The whole idea is that... people get together, consider the challenges facing us today and thrash them out."

A New Online Course

Hosted by online learning platform Disco, the course will see attendees join virtual seminars with the author. They will then take part in live workshops and develop "co-designed solutions" to present to Atwood, who was once <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia">dubbed</a> the "prophet of dystopia" by the New Yorker magazine. "We're going to be considering things like: What sort of clothing, what sort of food or what kind of houses (will we need)?" she said.

Virtual Seminars

"Our biggest challenge right now is the climate crisis... And we're going to have to be looking at costs and benefits, because there is no free lunch.""If you, for instance, decide that we're all going to have vertical gardens," she added, referring to the use of buildings and walls to grow plant life, "then what are you going to do about wind storms?"

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Known for dark depictions of the near future, the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" is now leading an online course aimed at building a "practical utopia."

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