The best of what I’m reading, watching, and exploring (November 2021)

Motivation

Some exciting news first: I just launched a new course on LinkedIn Learning called “Crafting Questions to Make Better Decisions.”

Have you ever rushed to find a solution only to find out afterwards that a better answer was lurking in plain sight? Finding the right questions is the key to finding the best solutions. In this short course—which you can watch in about 30 minutes—I reveal how you can use questions intentionally to reimagine what’s possible and spot opportunities you couldn’t see before.

This doesn’t work for me

Decision Making, Life Lessons

That’s the thought that kept swirling in my head as I browsed through the Cornell course catalog.

This doesn’t work for me.

Spectacularly you

Creativity, Personal Development

Back in 1998—before Spotify was a thing—Derek Sivers started a company called CD Baby that allowed musicians to sell their albums online. If you purchased a CD on the website, you’d get a generic automated email letting you know that the order had been placed and thanking you for your business.

To Sivers, this automated email felt too sterile and out of touch with his mission to “make people smile.” So he took 20 minutes and wrote a new order confirmation email more aligned with that mission. Here are some highlights:

Write one of your own

Creativity, Personal Development

Nine months.

That’s how long 6-year-old Stephen spent bedridden at home instead of attending the first grade. His problems started with the measles and progressed to repeated ear and throat issues.

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