The hero of your movie 💎 Issue #66
Plus: Advice that doesn't suck, writing for meetings and simple trick.
Hi there👋
What’s up? 🌄
📙 I’m still reading 'Leadership Step by Step' and this last chapter opened my eyes to what it means to lead yourself. With more or less difficulty we understand how leading others works and the benefits of it. Our favorite movies tell that story. But when we are supposed to be that hero character just for ourselves I was missing an important clue.
⛔ The chapter I was reading is all about unwanted beliefs. Things in which you believe that make you feel, or act, in ways that are unproductive, negative, or downright dangerous. Of course, you won’t see any of these beliefs at the top, you’ll just feel the anger, sadness, disappointment, or impatience, but it pays off to investigate why are we feeling like that, how is it justified, and more importantly, if our next action matches the truth to the belief that is supporting it.
🐒 How big of a genius do we think we are to consider that the majority of our beliefs causing these emotions aren’t in need of some revision?
😣 I’ve been thinking about this and it’s super uncomfortable digging into these least favorite parts of our brain and acknowledging that some emotion X was unjustified, unproductive, or both. I guess that’s another proof for why we must work on this if when we detect something we don’t like about ourselves our first, and only, reaction is sticking our head in the sand because we don’t like the feeling of it.
⭐ This is where leading ourselves comes into play. Increasing the awareness of the emotions holding us down, identifying the beliefs contributing to that, and coming up with a plan to test and adjust those beliefs is what we expect from our favorite leaders and here it’s just up to us.
New to me 💡
Most advice sucks. | 2 min read
⛏️ Someone just compiled 10 pieces of advice that were lying around on a subreddit about, wait for it, life advice, and it blew up on Twitter. I enjoy these threads because I don’t have to excavate this stuff from Reddit. If it’s good it finds its way into my feed. Oh, by the way, the link works even if you don't have a Twitter account.
😤 “If someone insults you during a meeting, pretend like you didn't hear them the first time. Politely ask them to repeat themselves. They'll either repeat the insult and look rude or realize their mistake and apologize.”
The document culture of amazon | 6 min read
🛒 There are good examples coming out of how Amazon operates if one does some digging. The importance of communicating in writing what could have been 45 minutes of misunderstanding and exasperation-filled meetings is something that maybe we should look more into.
✍ “You are not expected to retain document information outside of the meeting. Feedback and discussions happen during the meeting. Comments can be answered asynchronously. If more discussion is needed then the document will be revised and a new meeting will be scheduled to read and discuss it.”
The Coolest Stunt You've Never Heard Of | 9 min watch
🎬 I semi-spoil this for you. The stunt is in how you go from the famous actor to the stuntman in flames, or vice versa, without a cut (where they could just simply switch persons). It’s one of those tricks where I feel the magic is not ruined after you know how it works.
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A most vengeful tweet 🐱👤
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Filipe