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June 1 - June 15, 2020
“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: You can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”
The field of neuroscience now has empirical data on how emotions are intrinsically tied to the decision-making
TACTIC #3: CRAFT YOUR VIVID VISION
Lack of vision for your life will have you taking unintentional actions that don’t align with what you want.
Intentionality makes decisions easy and speeds up your rate of achieving what you want.
“Instead you need to think of it as one; your core purpose.”
Cameron says the best way to craft a Vivid Vision is to think three years out.
Create a manifesto
Find your big why.
Craft a Vivid Vision and make it public.
What makes us weird/unique or edgy as a company?
What do we do differently from our competition? What makes our culture unique? What makes people call us crazy, odd, or unusual? What do we believe about life and the world that might be seen as unusual? What are the things we will definitely NOT do? (For example, an ad company refusing to take on clients that promote unhealthy food.)
EXERCISE 2: CRAFT YOUR VIVID VISION
What does the world look like? How have you made a difference? What milestones will you have achieved?
Where do you see your company, movement, skill, project in the next three years? If you don’t exist, what would be missing in the world? What problems are you here to solve? What milestones will you have accomplished three years out? How is the world different because of you? Who are your partners?
How do you want people to feel when they engage with your brand/creation? What groups have you impacted?
What they wanted boiled down to four clusters of personal needs.
HAPPINESS, LOVE, AND BELONGING
SIGNIFICANCE
GROWTH
MEANING
The second benefit is the social edge you gain when you have the ability to transform any disempowered team.
It’s a basic survival requirement that is hardwired into our
Maslow says that in order for any person to move from one level to the next, the underlying needs must be satisfied.
Love and Belonging:
Self-Esteem:
Self-Actualization:
Self-Transcendence:
We know today that social connection is the number one thing that correlates with happiness.
positive state is any feel-good mood, like happiness, which is easily achieved when a person experiences any number of stimuli.
“society’s preoccupation with happiness inadvertently has resulted in greater levels of unhappiness.”
They accept negative emotions like sadness in the moment and view it as what it is: a temporary state.
A positively optimistic person is less reactive to their emotions. They have trained themselves to be more aware.
person with a high PQ means they have a higher ratio of positive feelings to
overall feelings.
“higher PQ leads to higher salary and greater success in the arenas of work, marriage, health, sociability, friendship, and creativity.”
Friendships at Work Create an Environment of Safety and Support Practice Vulnerability Positive Contagions
Compete at Kindness
TACTIC #1: FRIENDSHIPS AT WORK
When the brain is in a positive state, productivity rises by 31 percent
Sales success increases by 37 percent Intelligence, creativity, and memory all improve dramatically Doctors primed to be happy are 19 percent better at making the right diagnosis
Feel good = Work better = Exponentially better
HOW TO SPARK FRIENDSHIPS
Do I trust this person? Do I respect this person?
“trust battery.” He said, “It’s charged at 50 percent when a person is hired and then every time you work with someone at the company, the trust battery between the two of you is either charged or discharged, based on scenarios like whether you deliver a project on time or not.”
No matter how open a workplace, most people abide by a code of rules that regulate how we speak, dress, and listen to each other.
Daily Rituals
Weekly Rituals
Monthly Rituals
Quarterly Rituals
