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Saying “I think that”—or even better, “I currently think” or “My hypothesis is”—sets us up to update our thinking in light of new information with less psychological resistance.

This Ubiquitous Habit Is Likely Holding Your Work & Relationships Back

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Control is also built into the medium. A person who cannot find their own knowledge, cannot connect it across systems, cannot access it without a vendor interface, cannot let machines read it, and cannot reconstruct context without additional meetings, emails and compensatory labour, has low control by design. The cause is embedded in the format. The symptom appears in the body.

Information Autonomy

Martijn Aslander

people don’t pay attention to boring things (Brain Rule #4). You’ve got seconds to grab someone’s attention and only 10 minutes to keep it. At 9 minutes and 59 seconds, something must be done to regain attention and restart the clock—something emotional and relevant.

Brain Rules

John Medina

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