🔬 Life Experiment 16, 2021

Hey There.

Hope that your social life is going as well as mine, despite the corona reality show. Yes, yes, I follow the rules but had a really lovely online chat with the fellow Thinking Masterminds.

Our goal for the first event was:

If one person listens to the entire conversation and doesn't run away, the event was a success.

Not only did 10 people listen through the entire chat, but some also volunteered to participate as panellists in the future. Since the event was audio only we had to use a backup Zoom session to coordinate things. A lot of hand waving:

Just like with any proper high-end production, there was a lot of activity behind the scenes. An event write-up will follow shortly.

To attend the second discussion on Thursday 04-08 at 15:15 (UTC + 2) register here . Few minutes before the event, you'll get the link to the Twitter Space. You need a phone and a Twitter account if you want to join 😉

Will discuss problem-solving again. This time we are going beneath the surface.

Now let's switch gears and cover our thinking experiments of the week.

🔬 Weekly experiment 15, 2021

How do you express your self clearly and don't experience this:

If you cannot explain something clearly, people will be just like, Nah, I've got better things to do... If you can't formulate your thoughts clearly in business or in life, nobody will listen to you.

People often ask me how I can explain things so clearly? Practice.

I talk—a lot. So I get to practice what I say, so if I tell you something in a clear way, I probably tried to explain it before. Secondly, I write—a lot. Not just stuff like this newsletter, but also I write down thoughts—every day.

Is there a benefit of all that though capture? Yes.

Because thinking 🤔 through writing ✍️ allows me to open up another mental clarity dimension that long walks just can't. But writing into my journal is not the only part of my thought clarification process.

These days I try to think in terms of Tweets. Expressing something in 280 characters is not easy. And even that is a lot:

Now that the limit is 280 characters, the most common length of a tweet is 33 characters. Historically, only 9% of tweets hit Twitter's 140-character limit, now it's 1%.

The short attention span of the 21'st century requires shorter content and clearer thoughts.

Another great exercise of shorter content is a 200-word atomic essay that you try to write under 60 minutes. Such writing allows you to really come to the point fast. Not like in this newsletter where I have no word limit, and I can go on and on, and you poor reader have to consume all of my unfocused thoughts.

So the thinking experiments for this week:

• 140 characters is how much you have to explain something.
• 200 words is what you have to explain something really, really complicated.

Try to figure out how to say the same thing with fewer words. Consider it like a minimalism experiment. Instead of throwing out items of junk you accumulated over the years, you are throwing away unnecessary words.

Reading material

7 atomic essay examples from this week of the ship30for30 challenge on thinking through writing topic:

• Your Ego is blocking your growth
• Brainpower 🧠⚡ = Thinking power
• Why train your brain 🧠 how to think?
• Smart Notes? Sure, but!
• Foundation of effective problem-solving...
• Lego Problems
• Mind Trends

If you are in the mood to chat about any of the above essays, let me know here .

Don't forget to experiment and cheers till the next experiment.

Ziga

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