Issue 27: On Light-Footedness, Healing Grief, and How to Transform a Market. |
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We're pioneering a theory of human intelligence that has been called “groundbreaking" (The US Army), "mind-blowing" (Malcolm Gladwell), and “life-changing”(Brené Brown). Studies show our methods substantially increase creativity, innovation, resilience, and self-efficacy across populations as diverse as US Army Special Operations, elementary school students, and business leaders. These are methods you can cultivate. |
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Paul Strand, Wall Street (1915), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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What detail surprises you in this painting? Bob from Columbus noticed “what appears to be the lightness in the step of the gentleman walking into the early morning light with what looks to be a cane or a walking stick on his shoulder.” Did you find something? Congrats, you've just sharpened your intuition! |
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Want to feel less grief? Listen to this. |
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The Boxer has a narrative invention for helping your brain process grief. Do you feel it? The song doesn't do away with grief or failure. Instead, it catalogues it, stanza by stanza, prompting your brain to pause and reflect on your own grief. Then it leaves you with the image of a man who feels his grief — bitterly— and stays to fight another day. |
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You can learn more about the narrative techniques that help heal grief in chapter 8 of Wonderworks. |
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How to Transform a Market Picture it: New York City, 1967. You're a successful tie salesman who dreams of revolutionizing the fashion world. |
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If you chose B, congrats! You have the kind of common sense to be the next Ralph Lauren. Commonsense is your ability to match the newness of your plan to the newness of your environment. In Lauren's case, the environment was not very new. Men bought ties. Lauren knew how to sell them. In 1967, Lauren convinced his boss to let him create and sell his own line of ties. He made ties that he wanted to wear. Not the skinny ones that were en vogue at the time, but wider ties, throwbacks to looks worn by leading men in the classic movies that Lauren loved from the 1930s. They were a hit. Men who bought Lauren's ties needed shirts with lapels shaped specifically to frame them. Lauren responded by creating new men's shirts. Then they wanted jackets to suit the shirts. So on and so forth. Before you knew it, we were all living in a Polo Ralph Lauren™ world. |
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These prompts help you: — identify emerging possibilities. — develop your true EQ (hint: it's knowing what you feel, not deducing what someone else does). — boost your commonsense so you get better at matching your course of action to the degree of volatility in your environment. |
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