11: Write paragraphs with more than two sentences, and sentences with more than one clause.
You havenât spent much time around business-types. The KISS principle is crucial for comprehension and retention.
So itâs hard for me to be a good judge of people, no matter how much I try. So I find other people who are good at judging people and I ask them to help me.
You better hope you lucked out with your judgement on those judgement proxies.
Oh, I have. But itâs not desensitised me to this staccato delivery of what are effectively bullet points, which is jarring and annoying and, most importantly, distracts attention away from what the speaker is trying to say.
âŚ10 to the 10th power faster than anyone else.
I think Iâm 10^10 times better at exponents than the author, but the author is 10^10 times better at hyperbole.
Hmmm. Personally, I donât mind it. It makes for easy reading on the computer or cell phone, particularly when youâre not able to read in one sitting (which happens a lot with online articles).
Yeah, I hear ya!
âHe let us it after we asked nicely.â
I think you need a use in that sentence JamesâŚ
If everyone would just follow my simple steps, soon everyone would be the best at everything they do, exceeding all others.
My guess is this guy is currently working on self-promotion. He clearly loves it, and it sounds like heâs been studying it and doing it a lot.
I thought this article would be fluff, but I really enjoyed it - rings true to my experience!
Why doesnât James Altucher take his own advice and learn how to be good at something? Who would take life advice from such a train wreck?
This is what you signed up for to bring to the conversation?
Stay on the fence next time, this isnât helpful critique.
Can you give some context on why this guy is a âtrain wreckâ? His wikipedia bio (as an overview) didnât give any sort of major Sheen-esque notes. Iâm not even saying youâre wrong, just it doesnât follow anything and that advice is all pretty great stuff if not particularly startling.
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Ugh. Read, study, practice, and do so regularly. Hire a teacher. Hang out with other people who do the same thing (yeah, thatâs easy to manage).
How charmingly insipid.
Youâd be surprised at how hard that can really be. Most of us are constantly battling ourselves. Most of us have a good idea of what we should do to be better at something and still it is difficult.
This article was a great reminder for me. Even if it has been said before I need to hear it again and again. After all, we almost never learn anything difficult with just one repetition.
âDonât force yourself to learn something if you donât want to or itâs not a natural talent.â
Something about that sentence is not sitting well with meâŚ
Make a âhabit of successâ. The trick is to find that âsweet spotâ, where itâs just enough of a challenge to be interesting, yet not so hard that you consistently fail. (Of course, as Dwarf fortress users insist, sometimes losing is good, too!)
Itâs not saying never learn to read simply because you werenât good at it when you were 3. You have to get a baseline down in a number of areas, but once youâve done that, you canât do everything in life so figure out the things youâre going to put the lionâs share of your time and effort into. This is why trying as much as possible as a child is really important: you can get a sense of what really grabs you and you have some natural talent in so you can narrow down the number of areas to delve into further as you get older. Itâs a lot harder to start any new activity from scratch as an adult with adult responsibilities and schedule.
