Attention merchants have built trillion-dollar empires by capturing and selling our focus:<ul><li>Apps designed for maximum engagement</li><li>Notifications engineered for interruption</li><li>Algorithms that exploit psychological vulnerabilities</li><li>Business models that profit from distraction</li><li>Technology that fragments thought patterns</li></ul>Understanding this system reveals why individual willpower often fails against industrialized distraction.

Attention Merchants

Our capacity for sustained focus is deteriorating because:
<ul>
<li>Digital interruptions rewire neural pathways</li>
<li>Flow states require 23 minutes to achieve</li>
<li>Each interruption resets the clock</li>
<li>Attention spans are measurably shrinking</li>
<li>Recovery requires deliberate practice</li>
</ul>
This deterioration isn't permanent, but reversing it demands understanding and systematic effort.

Flow State Decay

We think we're choosing to use this technology, but we've been conditioned to crave it in ways we don't understand.

Digital nutrition helps manage cognitive resources:<ul><li>Assess apps' attention demands</li><li>Budget daily screen allowances</li><li>Choose high-value digital activities</li><li>Eliminate empty mental calories</li><li>Create information diet plans</li></ul>This framework transforms mindless consumption into conscious choices. Just as with food, quality and quantity matter for mental diet.

Digital Nutrition

Creating mind gardens builds attention through:
<ul>
<li>Regular periods of undirected thought</li>
<li>Practice observing without engaging</li>
<li>Strengthening focus muscles</li>
<li>Developing mental quiet</li>
<li>Building reflection habits</li>
</ul>
This practice counteracts the constant stimulation of modern life. It creates space for deeper thought and creativity to emerge.

Mind Gardens

Your attention didn't collapse. It was stolen.

Switch costs drain cognitive resources through:<ul><li>Mental gear-changing energy</li><li>Attention residue from previous tasks</li><li>Recovery time after interruptions</li><li>Focus momentum loss</li><li>Working memory overload</li></ul>Understanding these costs reveals why multitasking feels productive but actually reduces effectiveness by up to 40%. The solution is creating systems for sustained attention.

Switch Costs

The attention rebellion fights back through:
<ul>
<li>Collective digital detoxes</li>
<li>Technology use contracts</li>
<li>Attention-supporting environments</li>
<li>Social focus accountability</li>
<li>System-level resistance</li>
</ul>
Individual changes matter but aren't enough. Real change requires both personal and collective action against industrialized distraction.

Attention Rebellion

Focus foundations determine attention capacity:<ul><li>Sleep quality affects attention span</li><li>Nutrition impacts cognitive function</li><li>Exercise boosts focus duration</li><li>Nature exposure restores attention</li><li>Stress management preserves cognitive resources</li></ul>Digital distraction often masks deeper biological issues. Addressing these foundations makes attention management naturally easier.

Focus Foundations

Feel like you can't focus anymore? You're not alone—and it's not your fault. This eye-opening investigation reveals how our attention has been systematically undermined by powerful forces. But here's the good news: once you understand what's really happening, you can fight back. Let's explore how to reclaim your most precious resource: your attention.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back. “The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again “Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet   WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.   We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers’ productivity.   Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Johann Hari

Stolen Focus

Trying to help someone change can be sanity-straining. Even when people face serious health scares they often don’t do enough to alter their habits, like they’re stuck on some monorail track of doom.People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.Change happens when people talk themselves into change. You trying to do it is often counterproductive.

You Can't Change People By Telling Them What They Should Do

People are simultaneously smarter and dumber than you think. They often know what they’re doing is bad. They’re not usually lacking information. The issue is motivation. Overcoming ambivalence. Once people get motivated, they often make the change themselves with little help.So how do we motivate them and get them to commit to change? <a href="https://geni.us/motivinter">Motivational Interviewing</a>.

People Are Unpredictable

We all want help but we want to retain our autonomy even more. So just telling people what to do rarely works. We often think expressing our lovely opinions is all it takes, but that just creates resistance. Telling people what to do is the opposite of empathy.If you’re arguing for change and they’re pushing back, you’re doing it wrong. When we give people freedom and control, they relax.

Nobody Likes To Be Told What To Do

Don’t tell them to change. Evoke the reasons for change that are already in their head and support those. This is what motivates people to make a shift without resistance.The first step is asking people about their values. When you understand what people value, you know what motivates them. And when people hear themselves saying what they believe, they have a natural desire to be more consistent with that. This is the leverage we’re going to use going forward.

Telling Without Telling: Let's Talk About Values

The four primary skills of Motivational Interviewing are: 1) asking Open questions, 2) Affirming strengths, 3) Reflective listening, and 4) Summarizing.

Use “OARS”

Open questions are questions that can’t be answered with a single word. They often start with “what”, “how” or “why.” This gets people talking, provides you with information and allows them to feel understood. Most importantly for MI(motivational interviewing), it lets them lead versus you starting a 12-part lecture series on the importance of exercise.

 Open Questions

Asking question after question can turn a conversation into an interrogation and provoke defensiveness. So you want to use reflective listening about twice as often as you ask. This is our most commonly used tool in MI. Basically, it’s making a guess about what the person means, to reflect what they just said. “So you’re feeling uncomfortable.” This clarifies and communicates understanding.Taking a cue from therapists, it also helps to ask them how they felt, while you listen to their stories.

Reflective Listening

Just listening to people isn’t going to get them to change. Heck, it’s equally likely to get them to talk themselves into not changing. What you reflect is a strategic choice. You’re not shining the spotlight on everything they say; you get to pick. By what we choose to reflect, we can move the conversation in a direction to achieve our goal. In general, you want to reflect “change talk” and ignore “sustain talk.” That’s the witchery that separates MI(Motivational Interviewing) from merely listening.

Changing Vs Sustaining

To recognize and highlight the positive about the other person, their good traits and intentions. By affirming, you’re building their confidence. Keep giving positive feedback while listening, and build up their latent strength, which is now surfacing.

Affirming The Strengths

With this final step, you’re drawing together what they’ve said and presenting it to them. It’s a more muscular version of reflection. You’re giving them an overview of their position but in a more structured fashion vs the ambivalent mess in their head. It shows you’re paying attention and understanding. We can use the same reflection-Jedi-Mind-Trick here. There’s power in what you choose to highlight. You’re not just summarizing — you’re subtly building a case for change but with their own words.

Summarizing

People become more committed to what they hear themselves say. You don’t want to deny “sustain talk”. You want to evoke and explore their “change talk”.  Change talk takes the form of DARN: Desire, Ability, Reasons, Need. You want to elicit these types of statements because they will move people in the direction of change:Desire: “I want to lose weight.”Ability: “I want to run a marathon but don’t think I can do it.”Reasons: “I want to exercise so I can have more energy.”Need: “I need to get in better shape.”

From Sustaining To Changing: The DARN Method

We can’t push too hard. Remember, threatening autonomy creates resistance. We need to evoke these statements from them.Use DARN questions to evoke some DARN change talk so they’ll change their darn behavior!<ul><li>“How do you want your life to be different a year from now?” provokes Desire statements.</li><li>“If you did really decide you want to lose weight, how could you do it?” can get Ability responses.</li><li>“Why would you want to get more exercise?” gets you Reasons.</li><li>“How serious or urgent does this feel to you?” evokes Need.</li></ul>

The DARN Questions

Research show one of the primary motivators for change is someone noticing the discrepancy between their goals and their behavior. It’s uncomfortable. And to relieve that discomfort, our behaviors usually change before our values do.You usually don’t need to point out discrepancy. They’ll usually do it themselves with enough discussion. Again, don’t say it; evoke it.

Develop Discrepancy

A good way is merely asking them what they know about the subject at hand: “Tell me what you already know about alcohol and how it affects people.” No demonizing – they’ll probably do that for you. You’re not lecturing or telling them to change. They’ll likely start the DARN process on their own.

Reverse Psychology: Let Them Do Your Work

The best way to get people’s confidence up is to ask them about previous challenges they successfully overcame.“What changes have you made in your life that were difficult for you? Or what things have you managed to do that you weren’t really sure at first you would be able to do?”Ask them about how it happened and reflect their strengths and positive traits back to them. Then you can roll this straight into the current issue.“Suppose that you did succeed, and were looking back on it now. What most likely is it that worked? How did it happen?”

Evoke Hope

So your methods have worked and they’re imagining positive outcomes. Now’s the time to hit them with the key question to build a plan:“So what’s next?”You’re not pressuring them; you’re curious. Give them a big pause here to let it sink in. If everything has gone well, they should respond with some DARN change talk at the nuts and bolts level.“That’s what I’m going to do: designate 6PM to 8PM for studying.”

Starting The Change Plan

The final step is to help them troubleshoot. You want to present potential problems so that they can offer fixes. “If X happens, what do you think you’ll do?” The goal isn’t to stump them. It’s to strengthen the plan and to get them thinking resourcefully so they feel ready when something (inevitably) goes awry. If they immediately start coming up with solutions, they’re ready. Success.At this point you’ll want to lean back, tent your fingers and smirk. Don’t. Instead, be happy for them.

The Last Step: Troubleshooting

How do you get people to change? We usually go about it all wrong. Here's what the science says can help you persuade others...

Understand yourself and those around you.

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<ul><li>Ask questions!</li><li>"Tell me more about that," or "Open-ended questions" may lead to more insight about the other person.</li><li>Discuss common goals to remind your counterpart that you share some of the same desired outcomes (e.g., common goals for the company).</li></ul>

Get curious

<ul><li>The best way to break the ice and begin a more earnest negotiation is to call out the unspoken fear</li><li>Humor is often a valuable tool</li><li>Being able to laugh-especially at yourself-can make a tough negotiation better</li></ul>

Call it out-or joke about it

<ul><li>Be aware of the silence in the conversation and use it to your advantage</li><li>When there are pauses in the discussion, don't rush to fill them up with words</li><li>Let the silence linger</li><li>You may be surprised at what your counterpart blurts out</li></ul>

Don’t be afraid of silence

<ul><li>Refocus the negotiation on the matters at hand by defining one or two key points at the start of the negotiation.</li><li>This narrows the scope of the conversation so there is less opportunity for the discussion to veer off-topic and get heated.</li></ul>

Fight fire with water

<ul><li>You'll have a stronger negotiating stance if you are willing to walk away from the situation</li><li>If you don't have a walk-away point, you've given up one of your negotiating options</li><li>Insurance against being treated unfairly or having to strike a deal with a jerk</li></ul>

Know Your “Walk Away” Point

The next time you are across the table from someone who's not acting in good faith, there are some ways to shift the situation in ways that may defuse tension, align goals, and give you more of an advantage.

Sometimes, you may find yourself across the table from someone negotiating in bad faith. Here are some tactics that can shift the game in your favor. 


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This is where "networking" gets a bad reputation: you introduce yourself to someone new for only one purpose--you need them for a job, an investment, or a sale. Short-term networking makes you look desperate.Try to follow this rule: no 'asks' for a year. For example, let's say you meet a person who is well-known in the field in which you want to build a career. In your first email exchanges or conversations, you should avoid making an ask of any kind. Sometimes, in the short term, aggressive maneuvers work: people fold and say yes in the moment. But in the long run, it never does.

Short-term networking

The best networkers think long-term. You can start building long-term relationships by identifying people in your field who are doing cool things or whose work you admire.You don't have a specific ask in mind: all you know is that this person is worth getting to know.

Long-term networking

Only the most masterful networkers engage in this type of relationship. Infinite horizon networking is building relationships with people whose expertise seems irrelevant to you today.On the surface and in the short term, they might not be useful to you at all. But they're interesting. And the fact that they are not plugged into your usual channels actually means they have the potential of becoming your most transformative relationship because they are exposing you to new ideas, people, and opportunities.

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Allowing misinformation to spread only makes it more likely for people to start believing it, so when you see someone stand up against a person for sharing misinformation, join in on the conversation.

Stand with other people

<ul>
<li>Humans trust other humans more than they trust algorithms or bots, most especially those in our own social circle. Stand up against misinformation publicly.</li>
<li>This is not to say to aggressively argue with the person or mock them but rather to approach them firmly with specific reasoning and providing counterevidence about how the information being shared is fake.</li>
<li>The additional benefit to this is that when one publicly debunks a shared link other viewers will be discouraged to share it.</li>
</ul>

If you see something, say something

People share things on social media because of their emotions mindlessly all the time. Those who view their accounts in an emotional mindset, mainly anger and anxiety are the culprits, are more likely to share misinformation than those with a rational state of mind.

Be aware of your emotions

Before sharing something online, consider the consequences of doing so and ask yourself whether the link you're sharing is true; has it been fact-checked? Misinformation is shared quickly and without much thought to be conscious of your actions and your behaviors and control your impulses.

Take a pause

Every post you share is not only for yourself but it will be seen by other people. Make sure to double-check your sources with other contents that have low biases and high fact ratings in order to find sources you can actually deem trustworthy.

Consider the source

Research says that people who underestimate their biases are actually more vulnerable to being misled than those who acknowledge their biases.There is a thing we call "confirmation bias" and this happened when a person is biased towards believing information that is already aligned with what they believe in may t be politically, religiously, or by ethnicity or nationality.

Recognize your vulnerabilities

False information is shared by many people who intentionally want to mislead people, and many unaware people fall for this.In order to avoid the further spread of misinformation, we should learn the tricks they use to manipulate us.<ul><li>Prebunking - this is a type of debunking that happens before you hear myths and lies.</li><li>Play games dedicated to teaching you the tricks headline baiters use.</li></ul>

Educate yourself

Here are seven strategies you can use to avoid being misled and to prevent yourself -- and others -- from spreading inaccuracies, from psychology professor H. Colleen Sinclair.

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The Kish tablet is dated to 3500 B.C. and is considered by some experts to be the oldest form of known handwriting. It features proto-cuneiform signs - symbols that resemble a physical object. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are similar to this form of writing and date back to 3200 B.C.
Written language seems to have come about around 1200 B.C. in China and around 600 B.C. in the Americas.

Written communication during the BCE Years

<ul>
<li>The phonetic system does not use pictorial signs but symbols to refer to spoken sounds. Modern alphabets that many people in the world use today represent a phonetic form of communication.</li>
<li>Remnants of these systems appeared either around 19th century B.C. from the early Canaanite population, or the 15th century B.C. from a Semitic community that lived in central Egypt.</li>
<li>Over time, various forms of the Phoenician system of written communication began to spread. By the 8th century B.C., the Phoenician system reached Greece, where it changed to the Greek oral language.</li>
</ul>

The phonetic system

<ul>
<li>The Greeks used messenger pigeons to deliver the results of the first Olympiad in the year 776 B.C. They also established a library in 530 B.C.</li>
<li>Near the end of the B.C. period, systems of long-distance communication became more commonplace. In Egypt and China, messenger relay stations were built. They used human messengers on foot or horseback.</li>
<li>In the year 14, the Romans established the first postal service. Mail delivery systems were already established in India and China.</li>
</ul>

Long-distance communication

<ul>
<li>In 105 China, an official Cai Lung suggested using "the bark of trees, remnants of hemp, rags of cloth, and fishing nets" for writing on instead of heavier bamboo or costlier silk material.</li>
<li>The Chinese followed that up with the invention of the first clay moveable type for printing paper books between 1041 and 1048.</li>
<li>Between 1436 and 1450, Gutenberg's printing press was developed. It introduced key innovations such as oil-based ink, mechanical movable type, and adjustable moulds.</li>
</ul>

The invention of paper and moveable type

In 1835, inventors Joseph Henry and Edward Davey independently demonstrated electromagnetic relay, where a weak electrical signal can be amplified and transmitted across long distances. Cooke and Wheatstone invented the telegraph shortly after.
A few years later, Samuel Morse developed a version that sent signals from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. Afterwards, he developed a system of signal-induced indentations that correlated to numbers, special characters, and letters of the alphabet, known as the Morse code.

The telegraph and Morse code

The next idea to explore was finding a way to transmit sound to far distances. Alexander Graham Bell laid out the underlying technology for electromagnetic telephones and was granted a patent in 1876 for his improvements in telegraphy.
This introduced a new problem: what if you were not available if someone tried to call you? At the turn of the 20th century, Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen invented the telegraphone, a device for recording and playing back the magnetic fields produced by sound.

The telephone and answering machines

People have long sought to communicate with one another in many forms and across long distances.

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How Communication Evolved From Pictures to Letters

Professional writers rewrite their sentences over and over and then rewrite what they have rewritten.

Rewriting is the essence of writing

"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.”

<ul>
<li>A reader's attention span is about 30 seconds. And this is usually a person assailed by many forces competing for attention.</li>
<li>In the past, those forces were relatively few: newspapers, magazines, radio, spouse, children, pets.</li>
<li>Today they also include multiple electronic devices for receiving entertainment and information, as well as a fitness program, a pool, and that most powerful competitor, sleep.</li>
</ul>

A reader's attention span

“Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.”

Writers must constantly ask: "What am I trying to say?" Most of the time, they don’t know. Then they must look at what they have written and ask: "Have I said it?"
If something isn’t important enough for your writing, then remove it. In fact, most first drafts can be cut in half and still get the point across without losing anything important.

Writing well: getting to the point

Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn’t be there.
Consider all the prepositions that are draped onto verbs that don’t need any help. Examine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that doesn’t serve any purpose.

Eliminate words with no purpose

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”

There are many methods for writing nonfiction, but the most effective method is to find what works for you. Whatever helps you is the “right” way. 
However, there are key principles to good writing, and one of them is simplicity. Writers often use complicated or additional words to sound impressive, but good writing should be simple with clean language.

The principle of simplicity

Clutter doesn’t make your writing stylish; in fact, trying too hard makes your writing seem fake.
Just write naturally and clearly; don’t try too hard with fancy words or complicated sentences that are just confusing.

Don’t inflate what needs no inflating

“You learn to write by writing. It’s a truism, but what makes it a truism is that it’s true. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.”

<ul>
<li>If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your work is dead. Of such a progression of sentences, each tugging the reader forward until he is hooked, a writer constructs that fateful unit, the “lead.”</li>
<li>Do not count on the reader to stick around. Readers want to know very soon what’s in it for them.</li>
</ul>

The most important sentence in any writing: the first one

<ul>
<li>Give as much thought to choosing your last sentence as you did to your first.</li>
<li>Bring the story full circle: strike an echo of a note that was sounded at the beginning.</li>
<li>The perfect ending should take your readers slightly by surprise and yet seem exactly right.</li>
<li>Don’t sell past the close. When you’re ready to stop, stop.</li>
</ul>

Writing well: the perfect ending

You can’t predict what people will want to read. So don't worry about pleasing others.
Don’t try to visualize your audience; every reader is a different person. Don’t try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don’t know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they’re always looking for something new.

Write for yourself

<ul>
<li>Writers at their most natural when they write in the first person.</li>
<li>Better to have an opinion and say 'I', 'we', 'us', 'me' than to take everything into a passive voice.</li>
<li>If you aren’t allowed to use “I,” at least think “I” while you write, or write the first draft in the first person and then take the “I”s out.</li>
</ul>

Write in the first person

"The race in writing is not to the swift but to the original."
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what was written by earlier masters.

Writing is learned by imitation

<ul>
<li>Avoid at all costs the cliches of the thousands of writers who have gone before you.</li>
<li>When you’re choosing words and stringing them together, be aware of how they sound.</li>
<li>Use words you enjoy and that are vivid.</li>
<li>Know the subtle differences between synonyms and which one best expresses what you want to say. </li>
<li>Use the words that have precise meanings rather than those that are vague.</li>
</ul>

Writing well: choosing the right words

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Business Writing

Warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the fundamentals of conducting interviews and writing travel, scientific, sports, critical, and humorous articles.

A revised and updated edition of one of the most successful guides to writing ever published (one million copies sold).A Classic in its Field, On Writing Well is the Indispensable reference tool for anyone who writes, wants to learn to write, or needs to do some writing to get through the day -- as almost everybody does. Illustrated with examples of superb writing, the book covers a variety of subject areas, from travel, memoir, and science writing to business, sports, humor, and the arts. This expanded and updated edition features revised chapters, fresh examples of good writing, and two completely new chapters. One new chapter, "Enjoyment, Fear, and Confidence", urges writers to live interesting lives and to trust their general intelligence. The other, "The Tyranny of the Final Product", counsels writers not to try to visualize the complete article, but to focus on earlier decisions of selection, construction, and voice that will eventually let them know what their piece is about. Written by a master writer, editor, and teacher, On Writing Well is the writing book people swear by and love to recommend."On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers -- along with, say, Fowler's Modern English Usage and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style". -- New York Times

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Stories engage people visually, auditorily and even cognitively, as they include words, experiences and feelings.
You can use the age-old hook of storytelling as a way to engage your email recipients at office, and present your content in a manner that sets it apart.

Our Brains Love Stories

<ul>
<li>Setting: Data, trends and insights to provide context.</li>
<li>Characters: The participants of the message (sender, recipient and other stakeholders).</li>
<li>Conflict: The problem that is being solved.</li>
<li>Resolution: The way the conflict would hopefully be solved.</li>
</ul>

The Four Signposts Of A Great Story-fied Email

<ul>
<li>A good subject line of your email is the gatekeeper, the title of your story, something that tells the recipient what is going to be available when the email is clicked. Don’t just write a subject line, craft it.</li>
<li>The main body of the email should be a narrative that answers the question ‘why?’. This is the space to include the characters, the setting and the conflict. It can be a bit longer if the story is compelling.</li>
<li>The ending has to be a call to action, where we offer a deadline, a bulleted summary and a get-set-go finale which ensures the recipient knows the what, why and how.</li>
</ul>

Tell A Story In Your Email

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How to use storytelling strategies to get your emails answered

If you recover your energy while alone or in quiet surroundings, you’re probably an introverted type of person.You can experience the benefits of both types when you push yourself to overcome weaknesses of one type or the other at key moments in your life.

Introverted vs. extroverted people

There’s nothing wrong with being an introvert. If you are emotionally unstable, being an introvert can become the biggest enemy of your progress in life. There’s a big difference between being an introvert and being afraid of public speaking, meeting people and speaking up when necessary. Social anxiety is not introversion, it’s a fear you must face and overcome.

Introverted vs. shy/insecure people

<ul><li>Make sure that you speak up when you have something important to say. </li><li>Take advantage of your ability to observe other people, the environment you’re in and the energy flow in the room.</li><li>People will pay more attention to what you say when you do speak up.</li><li>You probably have the ability to study things better and faster, so when you do say something make sure that it’s an eye-opener.</li><li>People will trust you more and thus you’ll have access to more privileged information.</li></ul>

Thinking before speaking and acting

Introverts are usually much better at written rather than oral communication. If you’re that kind of an introvert, take advantage of it. As an introvert, you can easily be good in self-advertising, only in a different kind of way; there’s no need for you to greet big crowds of people, all you have to do is open a word processor or an online publishing platform and start writing.

Written communication

Being a good listener is a very important skill and as an introvert, you can develop an outstanding ability to pay attention to what people are saying. If you’re an introvert, you’re much more sensible to any stimuli from the environment. Therefore make sure that you turn off your phone and all other possible distractions from the environment when you’re talking to someone.

Understanding people and your environment

As an introvert, you probably have an incredible capacity to analyze, prioritize ideas and connect ideas to an environment, thinking through what it would take to realize them.Every day, try to write down at least 20 to 50 ideas to keep your creative muscle strong, because you can forget them more easily­, since you usually brainstorm ideas without interacting with other people who could help you remember.

Creativity and having ideas

<ul>
<li>Especially work on big and complex tasks, where your concentration power blossoms.</li>
<li>Look for important details that others can’t see.</li>
<li>Create a superior system of gathering, processing and connecting information.</li>
<li>Become really good with technology and leverage it for your success.</li></ul>

Concentrating and processing information

Introverts flourish when working alone and it can be a big advantage if you’re an organized person. Distinguish between important and urgent tasks and make sure that there are no <a href="https://agileleanlife.com/eliminate-distractions-from-life/">distractions</a> when you’re working. By doing that, you can become incomparably more productive than other people.

Working alone

As an introvert, you have a great capacity for building deep and strong relationships with family, friends and your spouse. Make sure that you do that and it’ll also give you the courage to act more extroverted in other areas of life.

Building a strong intimate network

The desire to lead must be greater than the need to stay behind the curtains or behind the book.<ul><li>You have to speak up when necessary.</li><li>You have to take initiative when an opportunity pops up.</li><li>When you do socialize, you must show your best.</li><li>You have to shine at the key social gatherings and push yourself through them.</li><li>You have to be a good communicator</li><li>It’s good that you think before you talk and act, but you must act.</li></ul>

Organizing things and leadership

Many people who don't know me ( Blaz Kos) that well or who only know my work from the media and speaking on a stage think that I'm a natural born extrovert - outgoing, optimistic, talkative, adventurous and always in action. The reality is much different, with me being an extreme introvert.

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