How To Be Influenced
At this higher level, your tool for influencing the world and creating your own growth is a practice I call consciousness engineering. Think of it as the interface between you and the culturescape around you. You decide what to let in or reject. You’re engineering how your consciousness is shaped and influenced.
Vishen Lakhiani • The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
‘influence’ has taken on some quite sinister connotations over the past couple of years, and the idea of people quietly swaying our behaviour and making people buy stuff doesn’t feel positive at all. But I just thought, why can’t I use the platform to influence change – not just for me, but also for my daughters?
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
“A quiet shift is taking place”: On being a creative in the age of content
Matthew Prebegitsnicethat.com
How do you summon an interesting set of friends to bounce your ideas off? Where do you look to find good influences? Which types of output should you produce if you want people to route useful ideas your way? But here I want to give a high-level view of why it makes sense to think about the world in this manner—as a graph you can restructure to cha... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
