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Opportunity Accelerators (Your Rocket Fuel):

• The connector who hosts private dinners where deals happen

• The decision-maker who controls the budget for your dream client

• The leader two levels above you is looking for someone with your skills

• The gatekeeper who decides who gets on stage at your industry’s main event

The important thing is that you practice. The more you practice, the better you will become.

The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.

(Now imagine this process happening in the exact same way for an object or location or whatever else. Take something as basic as an apple. Describe it: how does it look? Where is it? Is it doing anything? Even sitting in a bowl is an action.) After we categorize, we characterize. Now that we know what he’s doing or how he seems, what does that

There are also counterrational pressures at play on the inhibiting side, like whether or not branding fits a context. Lighthearted and fun is great for kids, but picture a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner. Candlelight, filet mignon, roses, red wine, and for dessert . . . M&M’s. It just doesn’t work. That’s a Lindt moment, a Ferrero Rocher moment, a

Base rates—or the frequency of something in a general population—matter when it comes to asking the right questions.

You have learned that the only way to improve is to get rid of anything that prevents you from improving. So you got rid of the obstacles like excuses, limiting beliefs, and multitasking, and then you became willing to learn more. Then you learned how to improve through the SEE principle of imagination. You learned the different memory methods—the

The Holmes solution? Habit, habit, habit. That, and motivation.

But this was just the beginning. Many in the managerial class saw the success of social media and wondered how they could use gamification for their own ends. The Chinese Communist Party was among the first to apply the principles of social media to the real world. In several towns and cities, it began trialing social credit schemes that assign