“Whether you’re trying to garden or take a picture or write a book, your ability to make a creative mess is your most productive state. You want to be able to throw ideas all over the place, but you need to be able to start with a clear deck. One mess at a time is all you can handle. Two messes at a time, you’re screwed. ”

David Allen says: "Most people have never tasted what it’s like to have nothing on their mind except whatever they’re doing."

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At 182 million subscribers, Joe Rogan gets Musk, Snowden, and Tarantino to talk like nobody is listening.A mediocre interviewer, but a true master of conversation.Here are a few lessons for better conversations from 13 years of podcasting with Joe Rogan.

The Biggest Name In Podcasting

Joe is overprepared.• Preparation goes beyond Googling a guest• He reads their latest AND their first publication• He'll dig into their views and knows their trigger pointsThis is what it takes to keep someone talking for 3 hours.Lesson: your commitment sets the tone.

Overprepare

Joe makes guests feel safe.• He breaks the ice and makes them laugh• He acknowledges a guest's view & expertise• Explains that he's here to learn, not to judge themIt starts from the first contact - Joe books guests himself!Lesson: trust is the basis for conversation.

Create A Safe, Trusting Environment

Joe has the curiosity of a child.• There to feed his own mind, not the listeners• He wants to understand what makes them tick• He's not afraid to look dumb and asks for explanationsWhere would your curiosity lead you?Lesson: genuine curiosity gets anyone talking.

Be Curious

Joe rarely asks a question.• He poses a fact that triggers a story• He'll encourage them to go on and dig deeper• Like modelling clay, he nudges the conversation's directionHe gets guests invested in the story, it's about them.Lesson: don't force it, listen & adjust.

Asking Questions Is Obsolete

Joe has limits.• Joe calls BS if needed• Producer Jamie looks up facts & examples• His input corrects & keeps the conversation on trackEveryone has the right to their own opinion, not their own facts.Lesson: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Put A Stop On BS

Joe reads the conversation• He leans in, reads & mirrors body language• Alters between open questions, encouragement, and facts• There is no predetermined endpoint, he'll steer it to a closeLesson: a conversation is 70% non-verbal, learn to read & use it.

Body Language

Forget interviews.This applies to any conversation.In your next conversation:• Establish trust• Get them invested• Lead with curiosity• Respond, don't react• Overdo your homework• Pose facts, trigger stories• Listen, check facts & nudgeAuthenticity is your megaphone.

Being Authentic: Beyond Podcast Interviews

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Loserthink as unproductive ways of thinking. Even if you’re intelligent and well-informed, you can fall into the trap of loserthink. The book describes the many different ways in which loserthink can manifest and lead to suboptimal outcomes.

Defining LoserThink

When money, reputation, power, ego, and complexity enter any field, it’s not rational to assume that you will see objective research and outcomes. Adams uses this idea to talk about the dynamics around climate science, which is highly politicized, very complex, and involves money and prestige. Given that these dynamics exist, it’s important to think about how they play into how the topic is researched, discussed, and managed.

Incentives Influence Outcomes

Mental prisons are the forms of loserthink (unproductive thinking) that limit your ability to see the world clearly. And without seeing the world clearly, you won’t be able to act rationally.

Mental Prisons

The inevitable outcome of the press having a business model that rewards brain manipulation versus accuracy is what can be called political warming. As the press becomes increasingly skilled at stimulating the emotion centres in our brains, one should expect the public to be in a continuous state of fight-or-flight anxiety. We’re more scared and angry than we ever have been, at least since World War II. And that means bigger storms ahead in the form of protests and divisivenessBe mindful of how the incentives of the press relate to the stories and information they put out.

The Raw Power Of The Press Is Used For Brain Manipulation

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.We all walk around believing that we hold informed and accurate perspectives about life, people, and the state of the world. This is delusional thinking. You and I are both walking around with ideas about the world that are incorrect.It’s not a problem to be wrong at times. The problem is that you can’t even imagine that you’re wrong. How could you…you’re so informed, thoughtful, experienced…and delusional!Instead of holding your opinion so highly, it’s worth asking yourself the question, “What if I’m wrong?”

Being Right and Being Wrong

If your complaint about other people involves your belief that you can deduce their inner thoughts, you might be in a mental prison. We humans think we are good judges of what others are thinking. We are not. In fact, we are dreadful at it. But people being people, we generally believe we are good at it while also believing other people are not.

You Don’t Know What Other People Think

Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis for practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive. Maybe you even have a funny story because of it.  Note how other people’s embarrassments mean little to you when you are an observer. That’s how much your embarrassments mean to them: nothing.

How to Stop Being Embarrassed

When you combine a human brain that is wired to notice problems with a press that is incentivized to present stories involving huge problems, you can easily start imagining that the world is falling apart in a variety of fatal ways. And that worldview might limit your ability to appreciate everything going right.

The World Is Always Falling Apart

We think we’re good at using pattern recognition to understand the world and other people. The problem is that humans are bad at pattern recognition. We think we’re good at it, but the reality is that we can’t tell the difference between a pattern that predicts an outcome and a pattern that simply reminds us of something and means nothing.

Bad at Pattern Recognition

When it comes to your personal life, business life, and political opinions, it makes sense to favour systems over goals whenever that is practical. A goal gives you one way to win, whereas a system can surface lots of winning paths, some of which you never could have imagined.Instead of thinking about discrete outcomes (goals), it’s worth considering how you can build a system that slowly gets you to various goals and more. Systems may bring multiple winning paths that you could not otherwise predict.

Systems Vs Goals

Sometimes coincidences tell you something useful. But 90 percent of the time they mislead you. Never be too confident about an opinion that depends solely on interpreting a coincidence.On the whole, coincidences don’t tell you much about the world. That said, we feel like they do, and we often misattribute significance to events that mean nothing

Coincidences

Always ask yourself if the opposite of your theory could be true. Doing so keeps you humble and less susceptible to bias until you get to the truth of the situation.In your personal and professional life, ask, “What if the opposite is true?” If you genuinely consider this question, you will find that you may avoid some of the blind spots and biases that would lead you down less good paths.

How to Be Less Susceptible to Biases

To learn and grow, it’s worth finding ways to explore new areas and interests. When you do this, structure your approach in a way that you’ll come out ahead no matter what matters. That means pursuing projects that will teach you useful skills, help you make valuable contacts, or learn to see the world in an expanded way.

How to Pick Projects

If you have a strong opinion about a proposed plan but you have not compared it to the next best alternative, you are not part of a rational conversation.Even if you think you have an awesome plan, you need to compare it to the next best alternative. If you simply state the pros of your plan, and you don’t consider the pros of alternative plans, then you don’t really have much of an argument. You also need to consider cons and costs versus other plans. This rarely happens in politics.

How to Assess the Quality of Your Plan

Judge people by how they respond to their mistakes. A good response involves taking responsibility for the mistake, giving a genuine apology, making amends (if possible), and not repeating the mistake.

A Productive System for Judging Others

Pacing involves matching the person you hope to persuade by agreeing with as much of their position as you can without lying, in order to build rapport and trust before taking on the disagreements.
Always talk first about the points on which you agree, to set the tone and establish yourself as a reasonable voice. If you are debating a topic in the news, start by noting that all news sources are unreliable at least sometimes. Most people will agree with that as a general statement. Once you have established that high-ground truth, you have set the table for persuasion.

Being Persuasive: Pacing

Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking. In it, writer Scott Adams will show you how to avoid Loserthink and to become a better and more rational thinker.

From the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, a guide to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality. If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around. "We know when history will repeat and when it won't." "We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences." "The simplest explanation is usually true." Wrong, wrong, and dangerous! If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open. Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it--and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences. Your bubble of reality doesn't have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free--and, what's more, to be among the most perceptive and respected thinkers in every conversation.

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From the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, a guide to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality. If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around. "We know when history will repeat and when it won't." "We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences." "The simplest explanation is usually true." Wrong, wrong, and dangerous! If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open. Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it--and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences. Your bubble of reality doesn't have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free--and, what's more, to be among the most perceptive and respected thinkers in every conversation.

Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.He also studied economics and management for his 1986 MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.In recent years, Adams has been hurt with a series of debilitating health problems. Since late 2004, he has suffered from a reemergence of his focal dystonia which has affected his drawing. He can fool his brain by drawing using a graphics tablet. On December 12, 2005, Adams announced on his blog that he also suffers from spasmodic dysphonia.

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FOMO, or the fear of missing out on experiences we deem worthwhile, may make people feel they aren’t living their lives as fully as their counterparts are. Surprisingly, social media doesn’t seem to directly cause this phenomenon: Research has <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407520945394">shown</a> that people with no social media presence experience FOMO to the same degree as any social media-addicted person would.  If people’s basic psychological needs aren’t met, they are more likely to experience what is now called FOMO.

The Fear Of Missing Out

Those with an unchecked ego, identity and codependency issues, and major insecurities are <a href="http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34817/1/Sarah_Buglass_2018.pdf">more vulnerable</a> to FOMO. If someone lacked a healthy relationship with at least one caregiver growing up, they may participate in toxic attention-seeking that can lead to FOMO if not reciprocated. A lack of satisfaction with one’s life can also induce these feelings.  When a person is dissatisfied with their life, they run the risk of developing FOMO, as they heedlessly look for ways to make life more satisfying.

Individual Susceptibility  

Seeking out instant gratification can trigger FOMO. Reaching true contentment, meanwhile, can take plenty of effort — particularly for those who have faced significant trauma. We look for instant gratification because we are trying to avoid discomfort of any kind. We are often taught that this is an acceptable or viable approach as children, but instant gratification that involves distracting or numbing ourselves to our discomfort in the moment can have significant consequences like addiction and dependence.

The Problem With Instant Gratification

When FOMO involves distressing emotions, the stress and limbic systems are activated — namely, the amygdala and the hypothalamus.  Social exclusion itself profoundly activates the amygdala and hypothalamus; they are one of the most robust stressors we experience.Our brains may pull memory files that resurface the painful psychological responses we experienced after missing out on activities we considered pleasurable. This distress modifies the memory system and creates negative memories and emotional states, a process that involves the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

FOMO Inside the Brain

While FOMO is usually viewed as harmful, could it ever be considered a good thing? It depends on what you do with it.The feeling can even serve as a powerful motivator when people start listening to it thoughtfully and map out the approach to realistically achieve their goals.<ul><li>You can even view FOMO as a source of ideas and inspiration.</li><li>Your core impulse is centered on improving your condition when you feel FOMO. </li><li>Fundamentally, FOMO is aspirational in nature, rooted in a search for whatever’s bigger, better and brighter than your current surroundings.</li></ul>

The Bottom Line

While the fear of missing out can stem from major insecurities and dissatisfaction with one's life, it can also offer certain benefits.

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Empathy is feeling with people. There are four qualities of empathy:<ol><li>Perspective-taking - the ability to take the perspective of another person</li><li>Staying out of judgment </li><li>Recognising emotion in other people</li><li>Communicating back the emotion you see</li></ol>

Empathy 

Empathy is different to sympathy.  Empathy creates connection while sympathy drives connection. Empathy is climbing down to the other person's level and seeing the world from their perspective. Sympathy is viewing the person from your own perspective. An empathic response rarely starts with "At least..." to explore the "silver lining"."I had a miscarriage""At least you know you can get pregnant.""I think my marriage is falling apart.""At least you have a marriage."

Empathy vs sympathy

What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities. Voice: Dr Brené Brown Animation: Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne) www.gobblynne.com Production and Editing: Al Francis-Sears and Abi Stephenson Watch Dr Brené Brown's full talk 'The Power of Vulnerability' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSjc-pbXk4 Dr Brené Brown is a research professor and best-selling author of "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead" (Penguin Portfolio, 2013). She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Donate to the RSA: https://utm.guru/udy0u Find out more about the RSA: http://www.thersa.org Follow the RSA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thersaorg Like the RSA on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thersaorg

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What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities. 

Voice: Dr Brené Brown
Animation: Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne) www.gobblynne.com
Production and Editing: Al Francis-Sears and Abi Stephenson 

Watch Dr Brené Brown's full talk 'The Power of Vulnerability' here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSjc-pbXk4 

Dr Brené Brown is a research professor and best-selling author of "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead" (Penguin Portfolio, 2013).  
She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. 

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The process is not arbitrary. The Spotify Podcast Editorial team are arbiters of the curated podcasts you see on Spotify and spend most of their time listening to and programming podcasts on the app. The users will first see the Podcast homepage when they click "Podcasts" on the home screen of the Spotify app. This page shows Editor's Picks of the best episodes of the moment and trending categories.

How featured podcasts land that prime real estate

The curated resources are sufficient for old and new podcast listeners alike. The goal is to find the best podcasts across all genres and formats and for all identities. They also serve as a source of inspiration for other talented creators.

Purpose of the Podcast Editorial Team’s Curation

The podcast editorial team consists of voracious podcast consumers. The team has different methods for finding podcasts to consider, including creator pitches, email newsletters, social media, networks and studios they follow, recommendations from their Content Partnerships team, word of mouth, and searching around the Spotify app itself. Generally, the editor team is looking for creators and storytelling that can inspire listeners. They also take audio quality into account.

How the selection process works

<ul><li>Present a reason to keep listening</li><li>Both educate and entertain</li><li>Authenticity and inclusivity</li><li>Enlightens or challenges through compelling conversation</li><li>Consistent across theme and production value</li><li>Packed with twists and unexpected surprises</li><li>Personality-driven and/or have incredible host chemistry</li><li>Well-researched and include a range of voices, like news & politics, science, history.</li><li>Delivers a frictionless listening experience</li><li>Experimental in format, such as fiction, music, and comedy.</li></ul> Not all will apply to every podcast. It depends on the genre or audience.

Factors required in a podcast

Besides producing content that aligns with the criteria of the editorial team, the following are extra steps creators can take to get noticed: <ul><li>Marketing and promotion will give creators an advantage. Social media such as Spotify Podcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and @Spotify on TikTok can help to get your word out.</li><li>Ensure your title is consistent and spend time on episode descriptions.</li><li>A podcast editorial submission form can give creators the opportunity to pitch their podcasts directly to the editorial team.</li></ul>

How creators can get noticed by the Spotify Podcast Editorial Team

If your podcast hasn't been featured on a curated community-destination or playlist yet, it may fit in a later collection or curation. <ul><li>The Spotify Podcast Editorial team is continually revisiting old and new podcasts. The editorial team knows that as creators do more, they continue developing and improving their skills and finding their audience.</li><li>Guest-curated podcast playlists offer another entry point to being featured within Spotify's podcast spaces.</li></ul>

Creators are always being considered

Discover how the Spotify team selects podcasts they feature and what creators can do to be considered.

Behind the Scenes of Podcast Curation with Spotify Podcast Editorial – News – Spotify for Podcasters

Life seems full of ever-increasing invisible work and unpaid labour, for instance, paying bills, making appointments, signing forms, or organising carpools. Columbia Law School professor Elizabeth Emens calls this work "life admin." It's the kind of work that managers and secretaries get paid to do in an office, but we all do invisibly and for free. However, we can take control of these tasks.

The homework of adulthood

Recognise that these are important tasks and deserve your attention. Find your own administrative personality to find a strategy that will work for you.Admin temperaments consist of four groups:<ol><li>The super-doer: You prioritise getting things done.</li><li>The reluctant-doer: You finally get things done but do so with a sigh.</li><li>The admin-avoider: You know you have to do stuff, but don't do it.</li><li>The admin-denier: You don't care if you don't do things because someone else will possibly do it for you.</li></ol>

Make it visible, understand your administrative personality

<ul><li>Do you reach for high- or low-tech management systems?</li><li>Do you prefer short sprints or a marathon to solve admin problems?</li></ul> The one you will show up for the task is the way you should go. It will make the job less unpleasant.

Understand how you prefer to work

Since we all have these tasks to manage, we can make it social. Invite a group to come over with paperwork they had been avoiding. Add something to snack on and make it more memorable.

Find a buddy and work together

Life seems full of ever-increasing piles of paperwork — bills to pay, appointments to make, forms to sign, carpools to organize. Here's how to conquer the responsibilities on your to-do list so you can get back to your life. 

How to manage the homework of adulthood, from paperwork to repairs

<ul><li>71% of businesses prefer Instagram as their top digital marketing platform</li><li>About 90% of Instagram users follow business accounts</li><li>2 in 3 people surveyed feel Instagram conveniently allows to interact with brands</li><li>50% show interest in a brand after seeing its ads on Instagram</li></ul>

Instagram Is Hot In Digital Marketing

<ul><li>To convert to a business account, go to Settings> Account> Switch to Professional account option in Instagram.</li><li>Create a strong Instagram content strategy.</li><li>Prepare a strong content strategy with well-defined KPIs to help you analyze the performance of your Instagram marketing plan.</li></ul>Schedule your posts:<ul><li>Most brands post 1-5 times daily but don’t bombard your followers with posts.</li><li>Create a social media content calendar, as this helps you get a 360⁰ view of your marketing strategy and gives you control over the content you wish to schedule.</li></ul>

Convert Your Instagram Account to A Business Account

<ul><li>With over 500 million Instagram accounts viewing stories daily, it gives you enough scope to: promote your products and services.</li><li>Post content informing your audience about any upcoming events or deals.</li><li>Have casual interactions with viewers to connect with them better and improve your brand’s presence.</li></ul>

Say it with Stories

Use Reels to be more creative with your content and express more with the combination of multiple videos for seamless transitionsAdd to your brand's personality by making your posts appealing and informative using captions.60% of posts tag other users to gain traction.Repost posts in which you are tagged to increase the engagement and visibility of your posts and, in turn, of your profile.IGTV allows you to upload videos as short as 15 seconds to as long as one hour.Track user analytics with the Insights option. It optimizes analytics based on the frequency of visitors.

Use The Tools

<ul><li>70% of Instagram hashtags are brand campaigning strategy-related.</li><li>Prepare different lists of preferred hashtags and keep track of which posts and hashtags perform the best.</li><li>Limit 30 hashtags per post.</li><li>Use relevant hashtags for your business posts that become the reason viewers visit your profile.</li><li>Offer incentives for going through your post and captions, using promo codes and coupons</li></ul>

Play with Hashtags And Promo Codes

82% of people reportedly prefer watching a live video rather than viewing a social media post. Use the Live feature to interact with your audience through comments and questions in real-time.Increase engagement and audience reach by announcing live contests and giveaways to drive viewership.

Go Live

Contests: Instagram accounts that actively post about contests tend to grow their followers 70% faster than those that do not.Sponsored ads can be effective if you have a niche brand.Post sponsored content and contest alerts to improve consumer engagement while increasing your following and visibility.Facebook’s Ads Manager and Power Editor are some of the most effective Instagram marketing tools to create Instagram ads in bulk.You can easily set up your Instagram Shop (Settings, Business, Set Up Instagram Shopping) and use features such as product tags to promote your posts.

Promote Your Stuff

Provide the link to your website through Instagram bio tools such as Feedlink or Linktree to increase engagement and website visits.Use direct CTAs, mention links in your bio, or share your latest Instagram posts to create interest in readers on other social media platforms.

Make Links Prominent

<ul><li>Captions can be as small as one-liners.</li><li>Memes generate more engagement and have mass appeal.</li><li>Use them judicially and ensure that it is relevant to your branding and your brand’s purpose.</li><li>Most of the audience on Instagram are millennials who share memes to communicate on social media.</li><li>Create eye-catching content and publish it directly on all your accounts.</li></ul>

Use Memes

<ul><li>80% of consumers feel companies have become more accountable due to social media channels.</li><li>Either follow the account to study their strategy or partner with them to understand their techniques.</li><li>The latter option can help you both interact with each other's followers and have a chance to increase your audience reach.</li><li>Find accounts that are relevant to your brand and boost its visibility.</li><li>Reply to comments on your posts, comment on posts of those who regularly comment on yours, and wish your followers on special occasions.</li></ul>

Driving Engagement

<ul><li>Focus on the audience's interests beyond your product or brand.</li><li>Create a user profile while conducting market research of your audience, such as defining their demographics, interests, likes, and dislikes to create a holistic brand image while being relevant to the audience.</li><li>Use Stories or profile pages to directly sell your digital gift cards to build a better relationship with your followers and potential customers.</li><li>Geotags: Instagram allows you to tag your location in your posts.</li></ul>

Lifestyle Content

Use Story Highlights to direct users to your product storeYou can either use a previous Story from the Story Archive Gallery or tap the heart icon below on your current Story about your business offerings to ensure continuous and convenient access to existing and potential customers to your store.

Story Highlights

If you find it difficult to promote your brand on Instagram or feel it is time-consuming, try revising your schedule or reducing your posts' frequency or reinventing your strategy, but don't quit the platform.Bonus: The best time to post on Instagram is between 6 AM - 9 AM and 5 PM - 6 PM on weekdays and till 2 PM on weekends.

Instagram is everything you need for Digital Marketing

51 Instagram marketing tips to exponentially scale your brand for better engagement, visibility, ROI, and overall growth.

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When you watch a chess game, it's easy to spot when another player made a big mistake. But when we play ourselves, we often make the same mistakes. The reason this happens is known as "the rule of the chess player:" It's easier to see potential mistakes when we're not emotionally attached to the game and don't feel the stress.

Performing under pressure

When you're in an emotionally intense situation, your perspective will be very different than when you're not in that situation. The rule of the chess player is based on the perspective gap, a psychological principle. It states that we often misjudge how we would react when facing a situation.

The rule of the chess player

When you see someone make a big mistake, you may think, "Well, that's what they get." or "I've been there; it will help them toughen up." Those reactions are unhelpful. They don't do anything for the person who's suffering nor for your relationship with them. In contrast, using the rule of the chess player helps you to realise that you would make the same mistakes if you were in similar circumstances. Your default changes from "judgmental" to "helpful", which can strengthen your connections with others.

Show more empathy

Chess Masters and Grandmasters practice dealing with different scenarios they might encounter. By practising the moves over and over, they develop habits and processes they can repeat effortlessly. You can do the same thing with your emotions. Training your feelings and emotional responses can help you to form habits you can rely on under pressure. When you're under emotional stress, you'll avoid panicking, which will help you to make good decisions.

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How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the 'Rule of the Chess Player' to Strengthen Relationships and Perform Under Pressure

<ul><li>Feeling what someone else feels</li><li>Actively listening to what they have to say</li><li>Not judging</li><li>Being aware of nuances and non-verbal cues</li><li>Discovering their perspective</li><li>Acknowledging everyone's feelings.</li></ul>Empathy is the ability to understand and share a person’s feelings. An empathetic person can feel someone else’s emotions, regardless of their personal experiences.You’re able to discover their perspective with awareness of non-verbal cues. You’re also able to simply listen without feeling forced to provide unwanted advice.

What is empathy? 

<ul><li>Having thoughts about what someone feels</li><li>When in conversation, giving unasked advice</li><li>Passing judgment</li><li>Only noticing the surface level issue</li><li>Understanding only from your perspective</li><li>Ignoring or suppressing your own emotions.</li></ul>Unlike empathy, practicing sympathy doesn’t mean you feel what someone else feels. Instead, you feel pity or sorry for someone else’s feelings.You feel bad for someone, but you don’t understand how they feel.A sympathetic approach only provides a surface-level understanding of someone else’s situation. This understanding is typically from your perspective, not theirs.

What is sympathy?

Learn the main differences between empathy vs sympathy and similar concepts like compassion and apathy. Plus, read about the best ways to practice empathy.