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2 stories, quotes or case-studies
1 critical question to ask yourself
Live Limitless: Simplifiers, Lesson Learned, Raising Hand and the Triple Filter Test!
read on LIFELETTER.RAAMANAND.COM | OCTOBER 8, 2022
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3 Big Ideas, Tips or Strategies for this week
- Simplifiers
Leadership don’t need degrees. Leading a team, project, or even a nation often involves cutting through complex stuff, simplifying ideas and eliminating doubt in the minds of people.
- Raise your hand
Milton Berle said “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”. If you feel there are not many opportunities showing up, then probably you are not raising your hand enough.
- Lesson learned
A wise man cracked a joke. People laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the same joke again. This time, fewer people laughed. He cracked the same joke once more and nobody laughed. He smiled and said, “You can’t laugh at the same joke again and again, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over?”.
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2 Stories, Quotes, or Case-Studies for this week
- Student essay
A school teacher was once correcting the essays of her student. As she went through one essay, tears ran down her cheek. Her husband, having noticed her crying asked what the matter was. To this, she handed him the essay her student had written. In the essay, the kid wished to become a TV so that he could gain the love and attention of his parents. He elaborated on how his mother watched the TV to be happy and how his father watched it with relief after coming home from work. The child expressed his wish to be a TV so that he could be the center of attraction and receive love from his parents. On reading the essay, the teacher’s husband said, “What a poor kid! Such horrible parents!” To this, the wife looked up at him and said, “That essay is written by our kid!”
- Triple filter test
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?”
“Hold on a minute,” Socrates replied. “Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“Well, no,” the man said, “actually I just heard about it and…”
“All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now, let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?”
“Umm, no, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but you’re not certain it’s true. You may still pass the test though, because there’s one filter left—the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither true, nor good, nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”
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1 Critical Question to Ask Yourself
When faced with a conflict, most people have one of these two positions: “that bad person” and “poor me”. What if you could ask yourself, “What shall I do next?”
Source: The courage to be disliked.
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Raam Anand
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