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Brain Food Fridays Number 50: Are You Learning The Skills The World Economic Forum Says You Need to Thrive, Week Seven?
Dear Reader,
This is Week Seven of the reading challenge to learn the skills that the World Economic Forum says you need to succeed in your career. So far you’ve read six books. And last week, I recommended that you do informational text analysis on your notes of the important information.
- Active learning and learning strategies.
- Analytical thinking and innovation.
- Complex problem-solving.
- Creativity, originality, and initiative.
- Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation.
- Critical thinking and analysis.
- Leadership and social influence.
- Resilience, stress tolerance, and flexibility.
- Technology use, monitoring, and control.
- Technology design and programming.
This week, I recommend that you read Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini. This seems to be the bible on influence.
TEACHING: How to Get the Most from the Five Books You’ve Read So Far
In case you didn’t have the opportunity to work on the informational text analysis last week, you can take the time to do so now. Pull information from your notes and write them in a table similar to the one below.
The aim of the exercise is to get bigger and better ideas. Suppress the critical part of you and just choose to have fun. Start from any point you want. Combine ideas from the different books and write your combination under the Analysis column. You may need more space if you didn’t create a huge table.
I saw the content from the books I analyzed in ways I’d never seen before because I’ve never matched them up this way. The big Aha moment was that I filled the gaps in my knowledge. One book is incapable of covering a topic completely, so this exercise broadens your perspective and knowledge of the topic.
Doing this allows you to see what others miss. Even people who have read the same books because they aren’t going as deeply as you. Try this exercise with books from diverse disciplines. Earlier in the year, I ran the Digest 30 Books in 30 Days, so I’m doing this exercise with books that are very different.
Book I’m Reading This Week
This past week I’ve been making tweaks to the course I created and I have a few people going through it to give me feedback. I issued them coupon codes, so they can get the full experience. Additionally, I’ve been taking courses, so that has been my professional development for the week. Also, my focus was on reading fiction.
Product of the Week
If you need help to take notes, here is Effective Note Taking for Professionals.
Buy Effective Note Taking Tips for Professionals
Until Next Week,
Avail Beckford, Founder, The Invisible Mentor!