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The Obvious Thing

June 28, 2021 By Joel Runyon 1 Comment

There’s a book “Obvious Adams” about the power of obviousness (Taylor does a good review of it here). The gist of the story is about a young man looking to start out in his career and he makes his career out of doing nothing but the obvious thing. The book is a quick read, but details "Adams'" stunning success as he goes from entry-level employee to executive - just by asking the obvious question, and doing the obvious thing. Where others would be ...

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Doubters Are Better Fuel Than Haters

June 21, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

It’s pretty common for people to rant online about their “haters.” They fuel their identity and work around proving these ‘haters’ wrong.  There’s a level of narcissism about this. Thinking that people are spending their entire day not just passively thinking about you but actively hating on you. It might be the case - but often haters ar just people making critical feedback, asking questions. They might even have a good point. If you think ...

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Common ≠ Normal

June 14, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

One the sneaky ways society lulls you into complacency is word f*ckery. Word f*ckery Using similar words to draw you into a state of complacency and confuse you into labeling yourself a certain way. Exhibit A: Using the word “normal” and "common” interchangeably. Society pretends they’re interchangeable. They’re not. Here’s what I mean: There are plenty of issues that people deal with that are common - it has nothing to do with whether ...

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Skill Theming: How to Learn More Skills, Faster

June 7, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is skill theming. Learning a bunch of related skills at once as a way to systematically get outside your comfort zone and learn a ton of new things, and Hypothesis: You learn new skills faster and gain competency by theming similar complementary skills and stacking them together than trying to learn them individually. As I was reviewing my impossible list, I saw a bunch of things on there that had been on ...

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