E36: How to Think Differently (Like Arnold & Stephenie)

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When something becomes a big success it’s often because it breaks all the rules.
Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight franchise: She broke the rules by making a story with nice and compassionate vampires who have stronger feelings, love and passion.
The books sold 120 million copies and the movie franchise made 3 billion dollars.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: He didn’t have the best muscle insertions for bodybuilding but he had the motivation to study his opponents. He took ballet courses to be graceful like a cat on stage. He would look at his competitors best body parts. Then he emphasized the body parts they didn’t have.
It pays to break the rules sometimes.
First you want to practice thinking differently in the small things.
For example, walk in the middle of the road rather than sticking to the sides.
How to differentiate your thinking:
1) Learn and know things other people don’t know by consuming different information from most other people. This will differentiate your thinking and emotions.
2) See things differently and more broadly than others. If something is happening in the world you can have a different point of view.
3) Analyse information differently or better.
Better: Mikael Syding always double checks and does the math again.
Differently: Quantitative instead of qualitative analysis.

Oskar Faarkrog

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