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To do that, Newport always asks himself the same three brutally direct questions on his walks:
1. How am I spending my time?
2. I tried X -- why didn't it work?
3. Why am I not as successful as I would like?
3 Brutal Questions You Need to Ask Yourself if You Want to Be Successful in Life
Jessica Stillman
Speaking really is not about “telling” the audience information. It’s more about “showing” the audience so that they get an experience that really sinks in. Gladwell always follows the principle of showing rather than just telling.
TED Talks Storytelling
Akash Karia
If law is the currency of governments, standards are the currency of international organizations and multinational enterprises. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an extrastate parliament of this global standard-making activity. A private nongovernmental organization, convening both private companies and national representatives, ISO oversees global technical standards for everything from credit card thickness to dashboard pictograms, computer protocols, and the pitch of screw threads.
Extrastatecraft
Keller Easterling
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