Hi everyone,

This week we're diving into abundant thinking, learning how to turn ideas into currency and picking up critical useful tools for thinking.

I'll be bringing back BrainPint specials for readers as well - enjoy this week's deal! 

Janel

The Remarkable Advantage of Abundant Thinking
“Too many people feel like they have nothing to offer when they have a ton: attention, presence, kindness, knowledge, access to resources.” A lot can change when you shift to a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. Here are some actionable tips that will empower you to gain more perspectives and possibilities to rewrite and upgrade the script. 

Long Waves: The History of Innovation Cycles
A visual representation and shallow dive into the history of innovation cycles. One thing's for sure: creative destruction plays a key role in entrepreneurship and economic development.⁠ Excited to be in the 6th wave of digitization.

11 Life Lessons I Learned Before My 30th Birthday
Polina from The Profile shares some important life lessons. Here are my top 3:

• Stop idolizing imperfect humans. Idolizing forces you into blindly worshipping imperfect humans. Learning, on the other hand, allows you to observe, synthesize, and pave your own imperfect path.
• You will never be ready — and that's OK. You learn by doing, not by waiting.
• Feed your brain high-quality content. What you eat is who you are, and what you read is who you become

How To Turn Your Ideas Into Currency
Can you make money online as a thought leader? Ellen explores how creators have turned their ideas into currency. This writeup features some of my favorite high-signal creators, Justin Mikolay and Sahil Bloom and myself!

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7 high value ideas & habits
A thread with 7 high value ideas & habits that took Shreyas more than a decade of my career (and dozens of costly mistakes) to learn

Useful Critical Thinking Tools
Thinking tools help you make better decisions. Here's a collection of 12 stellar tools. Remember, absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own

I loved Rapoport’s Rules, which teach you how to how to compose a successful critical commentary:

1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. You should mention anything that you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

Core Aspects To Improve Any Skill
This article was written for designers but has relevance to any career.

• Exposure
• Enthusiasm
• Essence
• Experimentation
• Expertise
• Expression
  

Huge fan of experimentation, which keeps the mind and body active so that you're not calcified in your ways. (h/t The Curious Bunch)

Poet - Capture and share Twitter posts as images. Just gorgeous. Have been looking for something like this forever.

Terms Of Service, Didn't Read - A website that explains complicated ToS in a simple way. Cut through all that legal jargon to understand what really impacts you as a user.

Dimmy - Device mockup generator for all your beautiful product shots.

Useful Figma Plugins & Tools - Plugins from color management and image assets to SVG shapes and animation.

What Food Isn't Worth It To Make At Home? - Fun Reddit discussion on dishes that are probably too much of an effort to recreate at home. 

Setups - Inspiring workspaces from creators. 

On Deck No-Code Demo Day - If you're curious about no-code or just want to see really cool businesses, come watch amazing, ambitious builders pitch the ideas that they've created without code next Friday.