Stuff that MattRs - #233

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ Ask Better Questions | ✅ Max Out your Monday | ✅ Use AI to complete tasks automatically | ✅ Play Your Way to Success | ✅ Keep Your Attention | ✅ Kill Your Feeds | 🔗 Swap the Frogs

🔥 Key Stuff: Ask Better Questions

Create meaningful connections by asking the right questions. 

• This model identifies five types of question asker, and how they make stronger connections.
• By knowing the styles, you can switch up to precision questioning.

📅 Max out your Monday

99 Ways to start the week motivated

• You have a lot on your plate, here’s how to make a great start to the week. 
• I'm a big fan of #3, #15 and #72 is a superb option for Monday morning.

✅ Use AI to complete tasks automatically

ChatGPT can now run queries on a schedule. 

• ChatGPT can’t replace the hard work of getting through your task list. 
• I'm testing this with a daily search of news about my workplace, and it's excellent.

🍋 Play your way to success.

When life gives you lemons, start 'lemonading'. 

• Research shows that playfulness actively changes challenging situations. 
• You can surprise yourself by being spontaneous and playful 

👀 Keep your attention

How the world's most creative people stay focused online

• Focus is an endangered talent
• By following a few simple rules, you can make sure you’re in the zone. 

🗞️ Kill your Feeds.

Five ways to get out of your algorithms and connect to the information YOU want. 

• We’re all being boiled alive like frogs in algorithm soup. 
• By being more intentional with your online behaviour, you can dictate where your attention is spent. 

🐸 Swap the Frogs.

Last week it was stack the pigs, this week it's 'Swap the Frogs' - starts easy. It’s not!

My Week Elsewhere

Some travel, highly recommended music, and some great listens from this week.