Ep 289| Compounding effect for Creative Designers

Compounding effect is the eighth wonder of this world. Albert Einstein, Warren Buffett, both of them said it. How do I approach it for a creative product design role? How do I really understand this compounding effect with respect to design journey? Okay, guys, in this podcast, I'm going to marry. Make it short. But if you needed a very detailed podcast with detailed section, you can go to my YouTube live. And I have recorded the day 37, the day 36 for this compounding effect. Okay, but this is a very outcome and a short overlay of this compounding effect. Okay, what does mean by compounding effect, Jagdish? First of all, compounding effect works when you do something repeatedly for a certain amount of time and then when you make it as a habit, and until you make that habit automated as the second nature of you, that is exactly called the compounding effect. Okay, you can able to apply it for financial, you can apply for product design, you can apply it for relationship, you can apply it for everything in each and every aspect of your life. So how do you understand this compounding effect? You can read a book called Habits. You can read a book called what you call Atomic Habits by James Clear. In fact, the Habits book was written by Carl Duhigg. That was one of the great books. Okay, first to get an understanding, you can do that. But in this podcast, what I would like you to tell about the particular habit, about the compounding effect is first you will have to understand habit formation and consistency is very important. Tracking and progression is very important. And reflection and usage of AI tools is very important. This is a three phase which I'm going to tell you because ideally, when you have to leverage the maximum effect of compounding effect, you will have to form this tree. First, let's talk about habit formation and consistency. So whatever is getting you stuck in your design career, like let's say portfolio, let's say job search, like let's say communication, or let's say salary negotiation, or let's say visual design skills or whatever. Research skills or whatever. Try to understand what is the habit which you are really weak. Then try to create three habit patterns for that.

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And try to create a very good consistency and a plan for how you wanted to go forward.

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So that is the very, very first thing. Example, you can take Google's design sprin. It was not evolved initially, but it evolved over the time. They had a formation of a habit and a process, which is repeatedly. They took action. In order to get that breakthrough, you can take Airbnb's case study so these industries have formed a design process and they made it robust. After a long point of time it not come on the day one. Okay, so that is very important. So forming this habits that supports a long term goal is very important. Such as this portfolio, networking, whatever is your strength or the weaknesses you wanted to improve. Second, you have to have a tracking and a progress and reflection. Guys, this is most most important. People don't do it. Ideally when you are in my community there is something called level up. We have a platform to track your habits, to track your tasks, to track your every single day activities in a graphical format so that I will know how much you are progressing and how much you are lacking. In fact, you will still be very transparently showing that in your in your friend so that you will can able to track it in every single day. See, nothing gets improved or decreased until it's measured. Very simple. Having the habits, having the compounding effect. Talking about this is not going to help you with any results. Having the tracker and a progress and a reflection of the mistakes with an accountability partner or your mentor will definitely get you to the next level. Or else you'll be just circling, you'll be just writing goals but nothing will happen. Okay, if you are in that state, type out one in the chat box or maybe just write it down. I'm also in the same state Jagdish, if I see that reply coming. And you will be giving you a gift as well as a small consultation over the email or a phone call to help help you out. Because I can see if you are listening to this podcast and you're typing out that, that that makes me feel that you're very serious. Maybe you're stuck in somewhere else.

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And then I'll be able to help you with whatever extent we want.

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And also you can climb on free gift which is available in this podcast and you can able to redeem that. And coming number two and three, we have a design verse event coming. Design verse is something very interesting which we do. Which are which we're doing it for the first time. Ideally if you're listening after November you will not be able to participate. But yeah, once in a month we are planning to have this event so you can able to participate in the outcoming.

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So you can climb the gift what available that will be there in the podcast description. Okay, that is the second part. Tracking, progress and reflection. You can use many tools like notion, AI habitica, you can use a simple journaling, you can use some kind of a goal tracker Or a diary, that is fine guys. But ideally if you have some mentor or a system who can able to track you in a very perfect level, same like this level up to have a high accountability that will be streamlining your work life balance. Like anything as a designer, you will grow faster.

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The third thing is leveraging the tools. See, you should know how to leverage these tools. You should know how to leverage automation. You should know how to leverage AI tools. Let me tell you, if you are in my community, I have again we have a thing called. We have a thing called Codex. People who are ideally filling this Codex document, they will have a super clarity in what they wanted to do and how they can able to improve their career aspect. Because ideally people are filling the Codex document. You can use that same chat as a co pilot in AI to start getting lot more inputs of how you can able to prepare a cover for your industry, how you can personalize message to the LinkedIn for this particular industry, how we can write an email, how we can phone call, how we can do salary questions. So all these answers are inside your codex available.

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If you wanted to know more about it, you can claim that gift and automatically will be notified. And we'll be sending out a small special gift for you. But not the Codex but to get you introduced because you can watch our free webinar if you want to. You can able to take our mentorship program also which is a paid program for premium people. It's option, okay? But you can understand from the fee webinar there are some important things which we discuss also you can take an advantage, okay? Because you should know what tool you wanted to leverage for the AI chat. GPD is one of the great tool, okay? Which is what I teach in my community very detailedly and also the co pilot and also Google Bot. So these are all the AI tools which can help you out. But ideally speaking, when you stick onto chat GPT and fill the Codex that is super enough, guys. Because that will act as a platform for you to leverage that. You need to have a habit consistency. You need to have a tracker in progress. You need to use the tools effectively when you completely understand this three and when you do it in an everyday basis, on every week basis until 31 days, that becomes a habit lock for you. When you do this consistently for even more 30 days to another 30 days, like let's say 90 days, that becomes a second nature of you. See guys, you can ask one question, maybe how long should I have to practice this compounding effect? You'll have to practice it until it becomes a second nature. You'll have to practice it until you start getting a lot of job offers. Even without you constantly applying or actively applying. If you wanted to get into that automation level, you will have to have practice of the compounding effect. I'll tell you what are the symptom. If you're following the compounding effect, okay, if you're following the compounding effect correctly, you will feel so boring, you will feel so frustrated. Then you are in the right track of following this compounding effect. And another symptom is there you will not see any seeing any tangible results in the starting stages. That is the second symptom. If these two symptoms are there, you are in the right habit, you are in the right compounding effect and make sure you consistently do it for the 90 days to see a compounding effort which is really coming into your life. And you will see every single day. People will call you for interview, people will call you for design tasks, people will call you for what you call salary negotiation. People will give you offer and you will have a confusion which offer to choose which option to reject. That is the effect of compounding effect which is going to come into your life. In order to do that you'll have to first really work on. I wish you all the best would have got some clarity in this podcast. See you in another episode. Take care.