Sachin Patel argues that vacations and routine changes, like switching where you work or joining a gym, expand your thinking and spark new ideas. Face-to-face interactions also force you to simplify your message in ways online posts don't.
Foreign. So far this year. Raise your hand if you've taken a vacation so far this year. Okay, awesome. Raise your hand if you haven't. All right, so it looks like haven'ts win, right? And you might be wondering, vacation from what? So when we have downtime is when we actually expand. So our most expansive thinking actually takes place when we're in different environments, when we're in different states, and when we are surrounding ourselves with different people, creating new conversations. So one of the things that I've been doing lately and I invite all of you to do, is to get a gym membership, right? That switches things up a little bit. So this morning I was at Lifetime Fitness. It's on my way home from dropping my son off. And instead of coming home and sitting in my office and doing work, I sat in the cafe there and I did my work. Right. Allows you to have new ideas, new environments, Right? So one of the difficulties and challenges of working from home is we tend to be in the same spot with the same view every single day, right? And so we go down the same groove every single day. And so it's like Groundhog's Day, right? Every day feels very similar or the same. And so if we can, you know, add some newness to our daily routine, that's going to help us create new ideas, new conversations. And when we surround ourselves with other people who have the same problems that, you know, we solve, then it also allows us to become more effective communicators of our message. Okay, so you want to practice speaking to other people to get to really understand what gets them nodding their head. Right. We don't get that feedback when we just post online. Right. Just like you don't like every single post that you read. You know, there's hundreds of people that read your post that may not comment. So we really don't have a good feedback loop of if our message is landing or not. Right. We can get a sense based on, you know, the engagement level, but we get a better sense if we can see people's faces and we can have a dialogue with them. You know, even right now, this is not really a dialogue because, you know, I can see your faces and I can see your smiles. I can see your eyes. I can see your fingers. Believe it or not, those of you that are typing, I can see your fingers. And so a dialogue is so much more powerful because there's that feedback that we get, and that's good feedback from for us because it helps us know if what we're saying lands for people. Right. If what we're saying makes them look confused. Right. Then maybe we need to simplify our message a little bit more.
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