8 Not-So-Obvious Concepts That Will Improve Your Social Media Posts
8 Not-So-Obvious Concepts That Will Improve Your Social Media Posts
Learn what your unique advantage is and use it
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Desirable Difficulties: When Harder is Better for Learning
The article in 3 ideas:
Hill-climbing is a strategy for getting better at things - try different things, keep doing the things that work, and stop doing the things that don't.
Desirable difficulties are actions that appear to work worse in the short term but work better in the long term.
Our brains much prefer short-term rewards to long-term rewards. So it’s important to push ourselves towards thinking more long-term.
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps
The article in 3 ideas:
Read it later apps allow you to adopt a collection mode & a reading mode separately. That way you can collect things to read at one time and later filter out the stuff you don't find interesting so you can read without distraction.
Garbage in, garbage out. The quality of what you produce is influenced by the quality of you take in by reading, listening, watching etc.
By organizing our read/review material effectively we can easily make use of them when we have a spare moment during the day as opposed to a dopamine hit from Instagram or Reddit.
8 Not-So-Obvious Concepts That Will Improve Your Social Media Posts
The article in 3 ideas:
You have two audiences - those who know you and those who don’t.
Learn what your unique advantage is and use it.
Learn who you enjoy following and why.
🔨 2 Tools/Resources
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