Ep 02 / "Wisdom" Keep changing your style of doing things.

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of changing your approach to keep others guessing and to enhance personal effectiveness.

Ep 02 / "Wisdom" Keep changing your style of doing things. Keep changing your style of doing things. Simplify it and replace hard words with easy words to understand Don’t always do things the same way. If you keep changing how you act, it confuses people—especially those who might want to stop you—and makes them curious about what you will do next. If you always do the first thing that comes to mind, people can guess your moves and get in your way. It is easy to catch a bird that flies in a straight line, but much harder to catch one that keeps changing direction. Don’t even repeat your "tricks," or people will figure out your secret. To win, you must be clever and do what others don't expect. Book: The Art of Worldly Wisdom Author: Baltasar Gracián

Topics covered

• wisdom
• self-improvement
• change
• strategy

Keywords

• style
• confusion
• curiosity
• cleverness

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Books & works: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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