Quartet #33: Overt Permission to Be Weird, 10 Ways to Effectively Use Email Preview Text, and More!

#3 is special and is only 19 seconds long. I looked for an image for "weird" and whatever that is above was the first thing to come up and it was so funny that I had to include it here.

#2 is also a gentle reminder to me that I have to keep showing up.

And without further ado, here are this week's ideas...

Quartet of the Week

1. The Past Is Not True (2-min read)

A short reading with a powerful personal anecdote about stories we tell ourselves over the years and how profoundly they can affect us, even when they're not true.

"Aim a laser pointer at the moon, then move your hand the tiniest bit, and it’ll move a thousand miles at the other end. The tiniest misunderstanding long ago, amplified through time, leads to piles of misunderstandings in the present."

2. Playing the Long Game (1-min read)

Some absolute gold from Seth Godin:

"The body of work you’re creating adds up over time. The consistency and empathy of your vision will seep through. Drip by drip, you’ll create something worth noticing."

3. Go Be Weird (19-second watch)

That is not a typo. This is only 19 seconds long and some of the most liberating advice I've ever heard in my life.

Watch this.

4. 10 Ways to Effectively Use Email Preview Text (7-min read)

I found this when researching for my upcoming networking course. I had never considered different ways to use preview text.

And there is no doubt in my mind that using this effectively will help get emails opened (which is the entire goal of sending an email in the first place!)

What's New With TEM

TEM305 is about why failing quickly is by far the best strategy and also features a great quote from James Clear.

My Final Thought of the Week

Here's a quote to send you on your way:

"You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else."

—Stephen Collins

This quote is powerful! It's good enough that I asked myself 'Should I save this for a TEM episode since I could easily talk about this for 10 minutes?' But I've decided to eventually share it in both places because it is that good.

My favorite part of this quote is the word develop.

It does not say you have to be born with a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself. It also doesn't say that you have to wake up one morning and realize you've found it.

According to Merriam-Webster, develop means "to create or produce especially by deliberate effort over time."

So if you don't yet have enough faith and confidence to believe in yourself more than anyone else, you've now got the formula. All you need is deliberate effort over time.

Quartet of the Week

What's New With TEM

My Final Thought of the Week

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