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PPP #117: How masters learn

PPP #117: How masters learn
Pip’s Practical Prompts Newsletter
Sent by Charles Burdett

Innovation

Ideas galore

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” — Linus Pauling.

Are you stuck with that one precious idea, iterating it with no end in sight?

Make a habit of brainstorming multiple solutions. You can do this by writing them down in a short period of time, like in our Idea Eight tactic from Workshop Tactics.

This will make you view each idea more objectively - and help you pick the best one.

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Leadership

The delegation workaround

Are you overwhelmed with work?

Do you struggle with delegating tasks? 

Even if what you’re doing is very complex, you can still ask others for help - by breaking down your project into smaller tasks and giving them to others. 

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Productivity

How masters learn

Becoming an expert in a field takes thousands of hours.

Want to speed up the process?Master structural learning.

It focuses on understanding the underlying principles of each skill - and then applying them to a different situation.

Like when you learn how to write a more convincing pitch, making it stronger with a personal story. Then, you apply the same storytelling skills to the emails and posts you write.

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