“Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it.” – Stephen Colbert
10 Ideas Worth Sharing This Week
3 Ideas To Help You Sell Things
1. Use short-term rewards instead of long-term rewards as incentives.
“If you’re offering rewards for a specific action from your customer, do you reward them sooner, or later? The answer is almost always going to be sooner.”
How To Write Better Copy
“It’s the emotion you need to hack. Emotion transcends absolutely everything.”
How To Make A Product Cool
“To sell something surprising, make it familiar; and to sell something familiar, make it surprising.”
How To Fix The Internet
“For years, the benefits of anonymity on the Net outweighed its drawbacks. Now the problem is nobody can tell if you’re a troll. Or a hacker. Or a bot. Or a Macedonian teenager publishing a story that the Pope has endorsed Trump.”
Stephen King On Childhood
“The two things that interest me about childhood: It’s a secret world that exists by its own rules and lives in its own culture; and that we forget what it is to be a child — and that life is exotic and strange.”
How To Say No In A More Powerful Way
“The key lies in saying ‘I don’t’ instead of ‘I can’t.’ Researchers found that volunteers who said ‘I don’t skip exercise’ instead of ‘I can’t skip exercise’ worked out more often.”
8 Ways To Develop Mental Toughness
“Is that a dream or a goal? Because a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably never happen. A goal is something you set a plan for, work toward, and achieve.”
Why You Should Brainstorm Questions Instead Of Ideas
“When participants are generating questions, they tend to dig into a problem and challenge assumptions. The process gives people permission to ask fundamental questions that don’t often get asked.”
Lessons Learned From 100 Days Of Rejection
“Rejection was my curse, was my boogie man, had bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then, I started embracing it and turned that into the biggest gift in my life.”