Tips for Reading the Room Before a Meeting or Presentation To be successful, itâs important to understand the underlying conversations, reactions and subtle cues. What signals should you be looking for and how can you influence the unspoken dynamics?
Tips:
- Observe - look at whoâs next to whom, whoâs smiling, whoâs not, whoâs standing, whoâs sitting, and how much space is between people. Look for microexpressions such as fleeting smiles or raised eyebrows.
- Control how much you talk - Make sure you aren't yapping away. The more you talk, the less you can observe. Take frequent pauses to try to hone in on non-verbal cues.
- Interpret your observations - Synthesize what you've learned and generate hypotheses about what's going on. Ask open-ended questions to help you uncover whatâs really going on.
How To Learn Stuff Quickly "Broadly speaking, there are two categories of learning:
Guided: Reading a tutorial, taking a course, watching a YouTube video. Anything where you're following a guide. Unguided: Creating your own projects from scratch, extending a tutorial, looking things up in the docs. Anything where you aren't following a guide."
If you only follow guided resources, you'll wind up in tutorial hell where you only possess theoretical knowledge, but don't know how to independently problem-solve. If you only go at it unguided, you'll need to reinvent every wheel, spending days or weeks solving already-solved problems. You need to find a balance between the two.
Unlocking Hidden Hours: Doing Time Right "Time is zero-sum. Time spent on [x] takes away from time spent on [y]. Everything is a trade off in life. How you spend your time is no exception. Protect your time."
This course helps you to unlock hidden hours in your day by leveraging the "Eliminate, Automate, Delegate" framework.
As with everything that Steph Smith creates, it's high-signal and incredibly actionable - it helps you focus on things you can do immediately, so that you can save time every week (as opposed to fluffy productivity hacks!) Plus, if you want to learn how to use automations / tools like Zapier to save time, or delegate tasks to Virtual Assistants, this is a good place to start.
As I dive in further I'm excited to eliminate the low-leverage tasks in my life and focus on things that truly matter. Check it out yourself. (aff link, but you know I love it and Steph's Doing Content Right)
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