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Make Every Conversation Buzz with These Connection Tactics (part 2)

Learning and Developing, Overcoming Challenges, Skillset / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 2 minutes In part one of this 3-part series on creating meaningful and provocative conversations, we talked about what makes a meaningful conversation so meaningful. We also explored how to mine your small talk for conversational gold, using a values-exploration technique. In this section, we will discuss how you can create a shared connection when the …

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Make Every Conversation Buzz with These Connection Tactics (part 1)

Learning and Developing, Overcoming Challenges, Skillset / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 3 minutes Defend Your Conversations From Boredom We’ve all been in boring conversations. Those conversations that feel like a pair of smartphones talking to one another. Maybe it’s new people without a lot of common ground, or maybe it is just very surface-level topics, but whatever the reason, you just can’t seem to make a genuine connection. …

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Become a Badass at any Life Skill (10,000 hours NOT required)

Learning and Developing, Skillset / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 7 minutes 7 Steps To Go From Beginner To Competent Ever since the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell came out, the 10,000-hour rule has become a part of the common parlance. If you want to be world-class at something, you have to put in your 10,000 hours, right? But what if you don’t want to be world-class? …

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3 Practical Keys to Telling Stories That Connect

Learning and Developing, Overcoming Challenges, Skillset / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 7 minutes Telling Compelling Stories Isn’t Complicated — Here are 3 ways to tell a your story so that it connects. By now, we’ve all heard the advice that storytelling is pretty useful. Stories seem to function as some sort of social panacea. They help sell, they build leadership, they create romantic attraction, entertain, engage, and generally …

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Using Mindfulness To Conquer Negative Emotions

Acceptance, Getting Unstuck, Learning and Developing, Mindset, Presence, Reflection / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why did I say that? What was I thinking? We’ve all had this experience. Maybe you get caught up in the emotion of the moment and you say something you regret. Or maybe it was an action that you took without thinking. Habits are like that. One minute you are sitting firmly in the driver …

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A Baby’s Guide To Failing With Self-Confidence

Acceptance, Learning and Developing, Mindset, Overcoming Challenges / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve all experienced failure. It can be so frustrating when you have put a lot of time into an activity, considering all the angles, and then game time comes and things do not go according to plan. How could this happen? What did I miss? If we aren’t careful, in the post-failure aftershock we’ll take …

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What if your brain could go to the gym?

Installing New Beliefs, Learning and Developing, Mindset / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you want to reprogram your brain, this is how you write the “code.” We all have those nagging, doubting thoughts that sometimes come up when you are trying to do something meaningful. You can’t do that, you aren’t x enough… I’ll never be the kind of person who can just… The world just doesn’t …

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Are These Your Blindspots?

Identifying Blindspots, Mindset, Reflection / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the biggest challenges to becoming the best we can be is the personal blindspot. These sneaky spots where, for one reason or another, we are unable to see a situation clearly or even at all. Imagine for a second that you have a gym routine that you like. You do arms on Monday, …

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Comparison Stealing Your Motivation? Do This Instead…

Acceptance, Experiencing Fulfillment, Mindset, Overcoming Challenges, Responsibility / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 4 minutes When action-oriented people feel stuck, there are two fairly common (but frequently counterproductive) ways they seek feedback to get motivated again. See if either of these sounds familiar… Common Get-Unstuck Strategy #1) Reach out to friends who are also stuck to talk it through. This can help you feel genuinely heard and understood by your …

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More Fun Than Tonguing A 9-Volt

Experiencing Fulfillment, Improve Your Energy, Overcoming Challenges, Reflection, Responsibility / By Ben Easter

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ever have one of those days when you just can’t do it? Not today. You can’t even. So stop asking. You’ve reached the end of your rope, the bottom of your drawer, the last straw of your tolerance for Andy (the well-intentioned but slightly-annoying-if-you’re-being-honest guy from accounting). Andy. If one more person asks you for …

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