Stuff that MattRs - #234

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ Multitasking is Impossible | ✅ Implement the No Triangles Rule | ✅ Stop Reading News | ✅ Get the Job You Want | ✅ Who do you call? | ✅ Unleash your Superpowers | 🔗 Daily Scrabble Puzzle

🔥 Key Stuff:  Multitasking is impossible

Let an expert tell you what you should do instead. (via Nice News)

• The solution here is to become better at SWITCHING tasks. 
• Getting better at having deep focus is a critical skill. 

 ⚠️ Implement the No Triangles Rule

Rachel Robertson shares a super easy way to build trust in relationships. (Via Rachel Robertson)

• We all have to face into difficult relationships
• By using this simple rule we can foster respect, innovation and build productivity

🗞️  Stop Reading News. 

Does the news make you wiser, or happier? (via Farnam Street)

• The more news we take in, the less we actually understand
• The solution isn’t abstinence, its discipline.  It’s digital minimalism. 

💪🏼  Get the job you want

A great guide to writing the email that will get you the role of your dreams. (Via Artisan Talent)

• Doing a little bit of homework before hitting send pays dividends.
• This easy template will help you make a superb first impression. 

 📞 Who do you call?

You wake up in a 3rd world jail cell. You’re only allowed to call one person you know to get you out of there. Who do you call? (Via High Agency)

• The person you thought of probably has ‘High Agency’ - a mindset that ‘gets shit done’. 
• Having a high agency mindset is a powerful weapon. 

 🔋 Unleash your Superpowers

Do you know your personal strengths and how to use them? (via Nice News)

• Uncover the differences between talents and strengths
• Practical advice to help you leverage your strengths

🧩 Daily Scrabble Puzzle.

Every day, a new Scrabble Puzzle, see if you can be the best in the world.

My Week Elsewhere

Some travel, highly recommended music, and some great listens from this week.