philosopher George Berkeley believed that Locke's Essay did not carry the principles of empiricism far enough.

Introduction

Locke said that a material thing does not necessary has only primary Settings that the material itself defines (like color) , but the mind of someone -Instead its splitted into three categories	1. Material	2. Perceive of the Object	3. Circumstances while perceiving

Locke's Essay

Berkeleys Claim was that theres only perception, nothing like material itself and it would disappear if no one is looking at itThe Idea was based on the splitting of material and immaterial world- as one couldnt tell if something is real when only having his own mind to figure it out. Thats where Science jumps in

Immaterialism

<a href="https://phys.org/news/2015-01-atoms.html">https://phys.org/news/2015-01-atoms.html</a>In Quantum Science, objects can exist in different states of being until they are watched by someone, which would define a static state of being.

The Quantum View of the Theory

Science is not completly contrary to Berkeley , as he states its all cause of the presence of Gods Mind. This might be interesting for someone to argument about a godly ecistence proven by science, as always its up to you what to believe

Conclusion

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Philosophy vs Science and Godlike Presences

Useful = allows a user to accomplish an objective in a certain contextUsable = useful + enablement of the user to perform an actionUsed = useful + enablement + adoption. The ultimate goal of a product.

Useful,  Usable and Used have different meanings

Some questions to guide<ul><li>Life goals – what does the user aspire to in their life? How might your product get them to that goal? What would motivate a user to choose your product over a competing product that achieves this objective?</li><li>Completion goals – what do users expect to happen at the end of using your product? What can you measure when this takes place?</li><li>Behavioral goals – when users undertake achieving the goal without using your product, how do they do it? How can your product mimic that process so that the product is familiar to them? </li></ul>

Ease of Use

Oftentimes, usability is mistaken with user experience, but in reality, it is just a part of it. Usability, on its own, is also not only ease of use, but rather a sum of multiple aspects: <ul><li>effectiveness - the ability to complete a task</li><li>efficiency - effectiveness + speed</li><li>engagement - looking right (typography, navigation)</li><li>error tolerance - preventing users to do errors</li><li>ease of learning - appropriate onboarding on a product or learning about new releases</li></ul>

Usability

Imagine a product has 7 different buttons, that whenever pressed with low or high intensity, they produce different results for users: <ul><li>Useful - has a purpose in the user's life</li><li>Usable - enables the purpose of a product to be brought to reality</li><li>Findable - the product and its content are easy to find</li><li>Credible - has built trust that it can accomplish the promised purpose</li><li>Desirable - good brand, image, identity, aesthetics and emotional design</li><li>Accessible -  a product's ability to be used by as many people as possible (e.g. impaired people)</li><li>Valuable (its production costs don't outweigh its usefulness)</li></ul>

The 7 Factors of User Experience

<ul><li>Top Management Support: Getting resources from top management to test innovative ideas</li><li>Market Orientation: Ability to conduct user and market research to bring them closer to the need of users</li><li>Technology: Suitable for the market selected</li><li>Knowledge management: Information sharing between teams helps bring down the knowledge silos</li><li> Development Strategies: Teams can negotiate and bring input to the roadmap</li><li> Development Speed: Being fast enough to provide value ahead of competitors</li><li> Development Process: Clear processes for design and development</li><li>Product Teams: Bringing different input for the product </li></ul>

Factors of success for new product development

Adoption is the ultimate goal of a product. For it to happen, the Product works with the marketing teams:<ul><li>Pre-Design Phase: Market research determines if the user base is large enough to make a product profitable; user research looks into its value & usability. </li><li>Design Phase: Designers ensure the product is desirable & usable, and marketers work to release news and build anticipation for the release.</li><li>Launch Phase & Beyond: Involve channel partners, distributors, influencers to spread the word; press releases, social media, free trials where possible. Get meaningful metrics to measure adoption.</li></ul>

Turning prospects into users

Appropriation can have two meanings: <ul><li>the usage of existing objects to create different contexts than originally thought (e.g. dressing in clothes from another culture)</li><li>the usage of a product in an unintended way  (e.g. using a block of cement instead of a hammer with a nail). </li></ul>It is desired that companies look to integrate their products in other contexts to attract more users, but should pay attention to copyrights issues.

Appropriation

There are different stages of a product and different strategies apply to each of them: <ol><li>Market Introduction: High costs, low sales, little competition, customer education, marketing investment, low profitability</li><li>Growth: Declining costs, higher sales volumes, profitability appears, brand awareness, competitors appear</li><li>Maturity: Declining costs, sales at peak, more competitors, brand differentiation needed, profitability declines</li><li>Decline: costs not optimal, sales decline, prices fall, profitability depends on efficiency of production and distribution</li></ol>

Using the Product Lifecycle

There are different types of adopters at each product stage:<ol><li>innovators: like taking high risks and have a good discretionary income. Naturally knowledgeable in the product space. Marketing and UX teams should identify them before launch to design for mass scale</li><li>early adopters: influential, thought leaders in the product space, educated in social media, with high level of education and reasonable income</li><li>early majority: risk averse, like to compare products before buying, lower income than the first 2 </li><li>late majority: skeptical, like to use trial and tested products</li><li>laggards: don't like change</li></ol>

Types of product adopters

Having a used product is more important than product market fit and usability

What You’ll Learn: Why adoption and appropriation matter to a product’s success. How to place adoption and appropriation in context with UX and usability work.....

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Get Your Product Used: Adoption and Appropriation

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ”

“Don’t be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don’t make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.”

“until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you’re not going away—that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project—you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.”

“Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.”

“Centuries ago migration was a leap into the unknown. It was an enormous intellectual and emotional commitment.”

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”

And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“Why are we here, that is the question? And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come...We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment.”

M]aking a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

“’The subjects will eventually recall and understand the purpose of the hard things we have done and plan to do to them. The mission of WICKED is to serve and preserve humanity, no matter the cost. We are, indeed, ‘good’.

“Speak Life: You are loved. You have purpose. You are a masterpiece. You are wonderfully made. God has a great plan for you.”

“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the great thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted.”

“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.”

“‘But for what end, then, has this world been formed?’ said Candide. ‘To plague us to death,’ answered Martin.”

“Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible—but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes.”

“If your purpose is something larger than you- to accomplish something, to prove something to yourself- then suddenly everything becomes both easier and more difficult.”

“Purpose is about pursuing something outside yourself as opposed to pleasuring yourself.”

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

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Quotes To Thrive. 

<ol><li>The Sidewalk is living for today rather than the future.</li><li>The Slowlane is sacrificing today for tomorrow, The Slowlane takes decades.( Old age )</li><li>The Fastlane is about starting a business, The Fastlane is about retiring while you can fully enjoy it. (Young age)</li></ol>

Sidewalk Vs Slowlane Vs Fast lane

Stop throwing money at another pair of shoes or skincare product, and instead, switch into producer mode. Look at the packaging.How does it feel? What does it do to make you want to buy it? Which words are they using in the ad?Take off your consumer glasses and be open and curious about the world of producing and you’ll be well prepared to start your own business.

Produce, Don’t Consume:

<ol><li>Meaningful relationships with friends and family.</li><li>Being healthy and physically fit.</li><li>Freedom (where the money comes in).</li></ol>

Wealth Trinity

<ul><li>Your roadmap makes up your financial belief system.</li><li>Your vehicle is you. No one can drive the journey but you.</li><li>Your roads are the financial pathways you travel.</li><li>Your Speed is execution and your ability to go from idea to implementation.</li></ul>Note: Sidewalk to poorness, Slowline to mediocrity, and the Fastline to wealth.

Wealth Is Not A Road, But A Road Trip

<ul><li>When you consistently act and bombard the world with your efforts, stuff happens. And that stuff? Sidewalkers interpret it as luck, when it is nothing more than action engaged with better probabilities.</li><li>When you’re accountable to your choices, your alter behavior in the future and take the driver’s seat of your life.</li></ul>

Process Creates Events That Others See As Luck

<ul><li>Money is your army. The more you have, the more they will fight for freedom.</li><li>Thinking never made anyone rich, unless that thinking manifests itself into consistent action toward application of laws that work.</li><li>Live below your means with intent to expand your means.</li><li>Slowlaners seek to minimize expenses while the Fastlaner seeks to maximize income and asset values.</li><li>You have to build a great product or service that starts to produce passive income, even when you’re sleeping.</li></ul>

Freedom = Money

….states that “the more lives you affect in an entity you control, in scale and magnitude, the richer you will become.”Or“Affect millions and make millions.”<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Scale (quantity) creates millions</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Magnitude (quality) creates millions.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Scale (quantity) and magnitude (quality) creates billions.</li></ul>

The Law Of Effection

<ul><li>People don’t choose to be poor. They make poor decisions that slowly assemble into a poorness puzzle.</li><li>The smallest choices made in your daily life create habits and lifestyle that forms process — they are the ones that can make the biggest impact. You can’t decide to “go Fastlane” because that itself is just an event. A Fastlane process is hundreds of choices.</li><li>Value your time poorly and you will be poor.</li></ul>

Choices

<ul><li>The purpose of education within the Fastlane is to amplify the power of the money tree and business system.</li><li>Skills and expertise are waiting just for you. No one drops a book on your lap and gifts knowledge. You have to seek it, process it, and then use it. The acquisition and application of knowledge will make you rich.</li></ul>

Purpose Of Education 

Businesses that provide value win. Businesses that solve problems win profits.You and your business attract money when you stop being selfish and turn your business’s focus from the needs of yourself to the needs of other people.

Hard Work And Commitment Separates The Winners From Losers

Your vehicle needs an ignition, a starter, something that compels you to jump out of bed in the morning challenged to tackle the day. That ignition is passion. You need a passion for something greater. It is different for everybody, but when you find it, you will do anything for it.

Passion

Solve other people’s problems and you will solve your own money problems!Define the Lifestyle: What do you want?Assess the Cost: How much do your dreams cost?Set the Targets: Set the money system and business income targets.Make It Real: Fund it and open it!

Four Steps To Starting:

<ul><li>The owner of an idea is not he who imagines it, but he who executes it.</li><li>The speed of the Fastlane is growing a business exponentially and taking advantage of exploding net income and asset value.</li><li>The key to failure is trying to please everybody.</li><li>Your product/service should standout in the crowd.</li><li>Focus on your business, which is to innovate and win over the hearts and minds of your customers. And when you fill needs and your army of customers grows, something suddenly happens: Everyone follows you.</li></ul>

Innovate And Win Over The Hearts

<ul><li>People are loyal to brands and relationships, not corporations or businesses.</li><li>The first step at building a brand is to have a Unique Selling Proposition or a USP (unique benefit exhibited by a company, service, product or brand that enables it to stand out from competitors).</li><li>If you can arouse emotions in your audience, you will be more likely to convince them to buy.</li></ul>

Businesses Survive, Brands Thrive!

The Fastlane is about building a better system, a better contraption, a better product, or a better “something” that will leverage your work. In the Slowlane, you are the source of heavy lifting, while in the Fastlane, you construct a system that does it for you.

Choose Fastlane !!

“Instead of digging for gold, sell shovels. Instead of taking a class, offer a class. Instead of borrowing money, lend it. Instead of taking a job, hire for jobs. Instead of taking a mortgage, hold a mortgage. Break free from consumption, switch sides, and reorient to the world as producer.”

Go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, save 10%, invest in the stock market…then, someday, when you are, oh, 65 years old, you will be rich but you can’t enjoy at that age…

Is the financial plan of mediocrity -- a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as "The Slowlane" your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes; it sounds a lil something like this: "Go to school, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich." The mainstream financial gurus have sold you blindly down the river to a great financial gamble: You've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by recklessly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. This impotent financial gamble dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair -- sacrifice your adult life for a financial plan that reaps dividends in the twilight of life. Accept the Slowlane as your blueprint for wealth and your financial future will blow carelessly asunder on a sailboat of HOPE: HOPE you can find a job and keep it, HOPE the stock market doesn't tank, HOPE the economy rebounds, HOPE, HOPE, and HOPE. Do you really want HOPE to be the centerpiece for your family's financial plan? Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less" and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there. Why jobs, 401(k)s, mutual funds, and 40-years of mindless frugality will never make you rich young. Why most entrepreneurs fail and how to immediately put the odds in your favor. The real law of wealth: Leverage this and wealth has no choice but to be magnetized to you. The leading cause of poorness: Change this and you change everything. How the rich really get rich - and no, it has nothing to do with a paycheck or a 401K match. Why the guru's grand deity - compound interest - is an impotent wealth accelerator. Why the guru myth of "do what you love" will most likely keep you poor, not rich. And 250+ more poverty busting distinctions... Demand the Fastlane, an alternative road-to-wealth; one that actually ignites dreams and creates millionaires young, not old. Change lanes and find your explosive wealth accelerator. Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONIs the financial plan of mediocrity -- a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as &quot;The Slowlane&quot; your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes; it sounds a lil something like this:&quot;Go to school, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich.&quot;The mainstream financial gurus have sold you blindly down the river to a great financial gamble: You've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by recklessly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. This impotent financial gamble dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair -- sacrifice your adult life for a financial plan that reaps dividends in the twilight of life. Accept the Slowlane as your blueprint for wealth and your financial future will blow carelessly asunder on a sailboat of HOPE: HOPE you can find a job and keep it, HOPE the stock market doesn't tank, HOPE the economy rebounds, HOPE, HOPE, and HOPE. Do you really want HOPE to be the centerpiece for your family's financial plan?Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to &quot;settle-for-less&quot; and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there.Why jobs, 401(k)s, mutual funds, and 40-years of mindless frugality will never make you rich young. Why most entrepreneurs fail and how to immediately put the odds in your favor. The real law of wealth: Leverage this and wealth has no choice but to be magnetized to you.The leading cause of poorness: Change this and you change everything.How the rich really get rich - and no, it has nothing to do with a paycheck or a 401K match.Why the guru's grand deity - compound interest - is an impotent wealth accelerator.Why the guru myth of &quot;do what you love&quot; will most likely keep you poor, not rich. And 250+ more poverty busting distinctions...Demand the Fastlane, an alternative road-to-wealth; one that actually ignites dreams and creates millionaires young, not old. Change lanes and find your explosive wealth accelerator. Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.

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The Millionaire Fastlane

We think of trust as precious, yet it’s the basis for almost everything we do as civilized people. Trust is the reason we’re willing to exchange our hard-earned paychecks for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even they are ultimately built on trust in the institutions that enforce them. We don’t know that justice will be served if something goes wrong, but we have enough faith in the system that we’re willing to make high-stakes deals with strangers.

Trust: The Inconspicuous Glue And Grease 

Trust is also one of the most essential forms of capital a leader has. Building trust, however, often requires thinking about leadership from a new perspective. The traditional leadership narrative is all about you: your vision and strategy; your ability to make the tough calls and rally the troops; your talents, your charisma, your heroic moments of courage and instinct. But leadership really isn’t about you. It’s about empowering other people as a result of your presence, and about making sure that the impact of your leadership continues into your absence.

Trust: The Foundational Leader Capital

So how do you build up stores of this foundational leadership capital?Trust has 3 core drivers: authenticity, logic, and empathy. People tend to trust you when they believe they are interacting with the real you (authenticity), when they have faith in your judgment and competence (logic), and when they feel that you care about them (empathy).When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these 3 drivers. To build (or rebuild) trust, you first need to figure out which driver you “wobble” on

The Core Drivers Of Trust - The Trust Triangle

People don’t always realize how the information (or more often, the misinformation) that they’re broadcasting may undermine their own trustworthiness. What’s worse, stress tends to amplify the problem, causing people to double down on behaviors that make others skeptical. For example, they might unconsciously mask their true selves in a job interview, even though that’s precisely the type of less-than-fully-authentic behavior that reduces their chance of being hired.

Why We Radiate Distrust

The good news is that most of us generate a stable pattern of trust signals, which means a small change in behavior can go a long way. In moments when trust is broken, or fails to get any real traction, it’s usually the same driver that has gone wobbly on us—authenticity, empathy, or logic. This driver is our “trust wobble.” In simple terms, it’s the driver that’s most likely to fail us.

Our “Trust Wobble”

To identify your wobble, think of a recent moment when you were not trusted as much as you wanted to be. Maybe you lost an important sale or didn’t get a stretch assignment. Maybe someone simply doubted your ability to execute. With that moment in mind, do something hard: Give the other person in your story the benefit of the doubt. Let’s call that person your “skeptic.” Assume that your skeptic’s reservations were valid and that you were the one responsible for the breakdown in trust. This exercise only works if you own it.

How To Identify Our Trust Wobble

If you had to choose from our three trust drivers, which would you say went wobbly on you in this situation? Did your skeptic feel you were misrepresenting some part of yourself or your story? If so, that’s an authenticity problem.Did your skeptic feel you might be putting your own interests first? If so, that’s an empathy problem. Did your skeptic question the rigor of your analysis or your ability to execute on an ambitious plan? If so, that’s a logic problem.

Where Did Your Skeptic Found You Wanting?

Now stand back and try to look at your pattern of wobbles across multiple incidents. Pick three or four interactions that stand out to you, for whatever reason, and do a quick trust diagnostic for each one. What does your typical wobble seem to be? Does the pattern change under stress or with different kinds of stakeholders? For example, do you wobble on one trait with your direct reports but on a different one with people who have authority over you? That’s not uncommon.

Our Trust Wobble Can Be Typical And/ Or Relative

Ideally, someone who knows you well. Sharing your analysis can be clarifying—even liberating—and will help you test and refine your hypothesis. About 20% of self-assessments need a round of revision, so choose a partner who can keep you honest. Consider going back and testing your analysis directly by speaking openly about it with your skeptic. This conversation alone can be a powerful way to rebuild trust. When you take responsibility for a wobble, you reveal your humanity (authenticity) and analytic chops (logic) while communicating your commitment to the relationship (empathy).

Bring At Least One Person Along For Your Diagnostic Ride

Most high-achieving leaders struggle with this one. Signaling a lack of empathy is a major barrier to empowerment leadership. If people think you care more about yourself than about others, they won’t trust you enough to lead them.

Overcoming Our Wobbles - Empathy

Empathy wobbles are common among people who are analytical and driven to learn. They often get impatient with those who aren’t similarly motivated or who take longer than they do to understand something. Additionally, the tools and experience of the modern workplace continually distract or prevent us from demonstrating empathy, by imposing 24-hour demands on our time and putting at our disposal all sorts of technologies that compete for our attention at any given moment.

When Empathy Becomes Collateral Damage Or Plain Roadkill

Empathy wobblers should pay close attention to their behavior in group settings, particularly when other people have the floor. Consider what often happens in a meeting: When it kicks off, most people feel very engaged. But as soon as empathy wobblers understand the concepts under discussion and have contributed their ideas, they lose interest. Their engagement plummets and remains low until the gathering comes to an end. Instead of paying attention, they often multitask, check their phones, engage in flamboyant displays of boredom—anything to make clear that this meeting is beneath them.

The Ills Of Empathy Wobblers

There’s a basic solution to this problem. Instead of focusing on what you need in that meeting, work to ensure that everyone else gets what they need. Take radical responsibility for the others in the room. Share the burden of moving the dialogue forward, even if it’s not your meeting. Search for the resonant examples that will bring the concepts to life, and don’t disengage until everyone else in the room understands. This is almost impossible to do if texting or checking email is an option, so put away your devices. Everyone knows you’re not taking notes on their good ideas.

The Prescription For Empathy Wobblers

Indeed, the last thing to say on empathy is this: If you do nothing else to change your behavior, put away your phone more frequently. Put it truly away, out of sight and out of reach, not just flipped over for a few minutes at a time. You’ll be amazed at the change in the quality of your interactions and your ability to build trust.

Put Your Damn Phone Away

If people don’t always have confidence in the rigor of your ideas, or if they don’t have full faith in your ability to deliver on them, then logic is probably your wobble. If they don’t trust your judgment, why would they want you at the wheel?

Overcoming Our Wobbles - Logic

When logic is the problem, go back to the data. Root the case you’re making in sound evidence, speak about the things you know to be true beyond a reasonable doubt, and then—this is the hard part—stop there. One reason Larry Bird was such an extraordinary basketball player was that he only took shots he knew he could reliably make. That choice made him different from other great players who let ego and adrenaline cloud their shooting judgment. Bird studied and practiced so relentlessly that by the time the ball left his hands in the heat of competition, he knew exactly where it was going.

The Prescription For Logic Wobblers

Once you get comfortable with how that feels, start expanding what you know. Along the way, make an effort to learn from other people. Their insight is among your most valuable resources, but to access it, you must be willing to reveal that you don’t have all the answers—something leaders often resist. Engaging people about their experience has the additional benefit of communicating who you are and what energizes you professionally—an authenticity boost.

For most logic wobblers, however, rigor isn’t the issue. Much of the time, the problem is the perception of wobbly logic rather than the reality of it. Why does this happen? Because they’re not communicating their ideas effectively.

Power Does Not Guarantee Permeation 

There are generally two ways to communicate complex thoughts. The first takes your audience on a journey, with twists and turns and context and dramatic tension, until they eventually get to the payoff. Many of the world’s best storytellers use this technique. You can visualize this approach by imagining an inverted triangle. The journeying storyteller starts at the top, at the inverted base of the triangle, and traces an enchantingly meandering route down to its point.

The Long Way To Communicate Logic - Ending With The Point

If logic is your wobble, however, that’s a risky path to take. With all that circuitous journeying, you’re likely to lose your audience along the way rather than build trust in your judgment. Listeners may even abandon you at one of your narrative turns.

The Long Way Is, Well, Long

To avoid that, try flipping the imaginary triangle upright. Start with your main point, or headline, at the top of the triangle, and then work your way down, building a base of reinforcing evidence. This approach signals a clarity of vision and a full command of the facts. Everyone has a much better chance of following your logic. Even if you get interrupted along the way, you’ll at least have had a chance to communicate your key idea.

The Short Way To Communicate Logic - Starting With The Point

If people feel they’re not getting access to the “real” you—to a full and complete accounting of what you know, think, and feel—then you probably have an authenticity wobble.A quick test: How different is your professional persona from the one that shows up around family and friends? If there’s a sharp difference, what are you getting in return for masking or minimizing certain parts of yourself? What’s the payoff?

Overcoming Our Wobbles - Authenticity

Being your “real self” sounds nice in theory, but there can be powerful reasons for holding back certain truths. The calculation can be highly practical at times, if wrenching—as in deciding to stay closeted in a workplace that’s hostile to queer identities. There may also be times when expressing your authentic feelings may risk harmful consequences: Women, for example, are disproportionately penalized for displaying negative emotions in the workplace, and black men are burdened by the false stereotype that they are predisposed to anger.

Why Do We Radiate Inauthenticity? 

Although withholding your true self may sometimes help you solve problems in the short term, it puts an artificial cap on trust and, by extension, on your ability to lead. When people sense that you’re concealing the truth or being less than authentic, they’re far less willing to make themselves vulnerable to you in the ways that leadership demands.

Short-Sighted Self-Limiting For Short-Term Gains

The cost of inauthenticity can be observed up close in the performance of diverse teams. Diversity can be a tremendous asset in today’s marketplace, and the companies that get it right often enjoy powerful competitive tailwinds. But this advantage isn’t automatic. Simply populating your team with diverse perspectives and experiences doesn’t always translate into better performance.

The Cost Of Inauthenticity

In fact, the uncomfortable truth is that diverse teams can underperform homogenous teams if they’re not managed actively for differences among members. That’s because shared knowledge is key in decision-making, and diverse teams, by definition, start out with less of it. But if you create conditions of trust that allow diverse team members to bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the table, you can expand the amount of knowledge your team can access—and create an unbeatable advantage.

HomogeneityDiversity, Authenticity And Trust

That is due in part to a phenomenon called the “common information effect”, which works like this: As human beings, we tend to focus on the things we have in common with other people. We tend to seek out and affirm our shared knowledge, because it confirms our value and kinship with the group. Diverse teams, by definition, have less common information readily available to them to use in collective decision-making.

The “Common Information Effect”

Consider two teams of three people, one in which the three members are different from one another, and the other in which they’re similar. If both teams are managed in exactly the same way—if they simply follow the same best practices in group facilitation, for example—the homogenous team is likely to perform better. No amount of feedback or number of trust falls can overcome the strength of the common information effect.

The Obvious Lead Of Homogeneity Over Diversity

But the “common information effect” only holds if people wobble on authenticity. When they choose to bring their unique selves to the table—that is, the parts of themselves that are different from other people—they can create an unbeatable advantage by expanding the amount of information the team can access. The result is an inclusive team that’s likely to outperform (by a long shot) both homogenous teams and diverse teams that aren’t actively managed for inclusion.

Open And Closed Lakes

Here’s the reason to care, even if you don’t see yourself as different: All of us pay the price of inauthentic interactions, and all of us have a better chance of thriving in inclusive environments where authenticity can flourish. Gender bias, in other words, is not just a woman’s problem. Systemic racism is not just an African-American or Latinx problem. It’s our shared moral and organizational imperative to create workplaces where the burdens of being different are shouldered by all of us. After all, we will all benefit wildly from eliminating them.

No Wobble Is Too Innocent Or Too Far Away

So pay less attention to what you think people want to hear and more attention to what you need to say to them. Reveal your full humanity to the world, regardless of what your critics say. And while you’re at it, take exquisite care of people who are different from you, confident in the knowledge that their difference is the very thing that could unleash your potential and your organization’s.

Forge Links And Chains Of  Authenticities

To be a truly empowering leader, you need to take stock of where you wobble not only in your relationships with others but also in your relationship with yourself. Are you being honest with yourself about your ambitions, or are you ignoring what really excites and inspires you? If l so, you’ve got an authenticity problem you need to address. Do you acknowledge your own needs and attend properly to them? If not, you’ve got to adopt a more empathetic posture toward yourself. Do you lack conviction in your own ideas and ability to perform? If so, you’ve got some logic issues to work out.

In Myself I Trust

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of its 3 core drivers. To build (or rebuild) trust, we first need to figure out which driver we “wobble” on. (Replace the words “leaders” and “leadership” with “human beings” and “relationships” and see what happens). 

The first step to becoming a genuinely empowering leader

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<ul><li>At the most superficial level, puttering (occupying ourselves in a desultory but pleasant way) may be useful because it occupies the mind so that we devote fewer resources to the things that are worrying us. </li><li>Even if we struggle with structured forms of meditation, for instance, we may find household tasks can anchor us in the here and now. But that will depend on where we place our focus.</li><li>On YouTube, there’s even a huge audience for videos of other people going about their chores, with millions of views for some of the most popular clips.</li></ul>

Pleasant distractions

Unlike other distracting activities – such as playing computer games or watching trashy TV – puttering also has the advantage of being proactive and useful, increasing our “perceived control”.When we feel anxious, a sense of helplessness can heighten the physiological stress response, increasing levels of hormones such as cortisol. Over the long term, the sense of helplessness can even harm the function of the immune system.We can gain a perception of control from activities that may have little effect on the situation that’s bothering us.

Perceived control

If you are sitting at your kitchen table with your laptop surrounded by clutter, that’s a lot of visual stimuli that your brain is continuously having to process while you simultaneously try to concentrate on the task at hand. Take away the visual clutter and you can focus much more easily.Importantly, you don’t necessarily have to remove the clutter to prevent this from occurring – simply rearranging it will do. Organizing objects into groups – by color, for example – may provide the brain with more obvious cues for navigating the chaos.

Tidy room, focused mind 

By reducing anxiety, soothing stress responses, increasing focus, and triggering the release of endorphins, it’s little wonder so many of us take to household chores as soon as we are faced with uncertainty.Like all activities, the extent of these benefits will be influenced by your personal tastes and the associations that you link with the tasks.

Pleasant associations

Especially when you’ve got a lot on, tiny household tasks can be soothing. Why do pleasant distractions feel oddly good?

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychodrama is an action method, often used as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotherapy">psychotherapy </a>, in which clients use spontaneous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(arts)">dramatization </a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_playing">role playing </a>, and dramatic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-presentation">self-presentation </a>to investigate and gain insight into their lives.

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Strange how these things keep popping up like unconsciously you didn't choose the perfect ideal forms of expression. 

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