Imran Yussuff
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Imran Yussuff
One way of transforming services like dentistry, surgery, or injections from a need that is not wanted into a want-need would be to market them as an aid to improving appearance and self-confidence.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Marketing services as needs
1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you’re reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.
8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices... See more
8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices... See more
How to think - Ed Boyden
Sociology professor Daniel Chambliss, who spent years researching the qualities of elite swimmers, on what creates excellence: "Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together
... See moreJames Clear put it this way: “People follow incentives, not advice.”
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
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This was an optimistic way of looking at the situation. I told Smith that I couldn’t shake the feeling that technology is rewriting our bodies to correspond to its own interests—rearranging our faces according to whatever increases engagement and likes. “Don’t you think it’s scary to imagine people doing this forever?” I asked.
Well, yeah, it’s obviously terrifying,” he said.
Not addressing insecurity
Addressing insecurity via a temporary measure is unsustainable. Life gets more difficult, and not developing the mental resilience and focus to deal with those feelings. If you do, that will be translatable to others areas of your life
Reinforcing unrealistic beauty standards
Focus and waste of resource on vanity, rather than
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
“How did you accomplish that?”
“Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.”
“Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.”