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Welcome back to the Guild Live show. I'm Tyson Mutrix and today we've got a really fun one. We're going to be talking about not all thrive in some environments. We're going to be talking about some things going with E. Gates, which is going to be an interesting one. How you're probably dulling your brain. Hopefully not all of you are, but most of you, I guarantee that you are talking about doom scrolling. Okay, a little bit. And something about click answers. So click with a Q, not a ck. We'll get to that in a moment. All right, Arthur, first segment. We're going to be talking about how not all thrive. And this is about an article about. It's from Fast Company. Not everyone will thrive in an innovative culture. And that's okay. It's by Greg Satel. And the reason why I wanted to bring this up is because I want a lot of you to stop trying to be googly. You don't. You don't be Google. I want you to focus on building the right culture for your case. Mix your clientele and your team. Not some generic innovative culture. Okay? Because it doesn't fit for everybody. It's just not the thing. There is no fixed creative personality. This is from the article leaders. They create conditions where some people and ideas thrive and others don't. Right? And that's fine fit. It beats fantasy because we have this fantasy sometimes we have this, this idea of what the culture should look like and it's not what we think it is. Right? It's. It's really more about fit what fits. Right? So. So they talk about Xerox a little bit and it's, it's how a, a great model can be a trap where they, they flourished by creating sort of a different environment where different misfits, they really sort of thrived on that sort of environment. And you also kind of think about where there was. There was a guy named Gary Starkweather where, I mean, he was just sort of an out there kind of a guy, was. Came up some crazy ideas, ended up building the laser printer. So really wonderful, wonderful for that environment. But then others, they actually, they didn't fit in with that environment and they, they left. Those people left and they actually went and built Pixar. Right? So you have these people that are still amazing, still great, don't fit that environment and they left and, and built Pixar. So even, and the whole idea is, is that even high performers can be misfits in the wrong environment. Now you can make the argument that if they had stayed at, in that environment, which they weren't really, they weren't flourishing in that environment, they were doing pretty poorly. Although they were, they were rock stars and everything else. They weren't really doing well in the whole Xerox world. Like I said, maybe if they'd stuck around, maybe the company would have survived because they could have gotten their ideas through. But that's not the point of this. The point of this is that with that environment, because at the time Xerox was still a great company, things have changed quite a bit, as you probably know. Just, I think that's more of the world in general as opposed to that company. And so your leader, your job as the leader is to. Is to really choose a culture that's fit for the purpose that you're trying to fulfill. And you're doing that because you're, you know, it's going to attract some talent and repel other talent. Right? So the idea is you're going to create this culture that it's going to attract some people, it's going to repel other people. And that's a, that's a massive feature of creating the right environment. Not really a bug. Okay, so even if you have a really quirky environment, some people might view that as a bug. No, that's could actually be a feature that you're going to attract certain people and repel other people. Let's get on to the next story. So this is a, this is a fun one. This is one where Lear and tsa, they are going to launch some biometric E gates at three major airports. This is kind of an interesting one where piloting this biometric E gate that automatically match your face to ID plus boarding pass and write you straight to physical screening. So they're going to initially do it at Atlanta, Seattle and then I think in D.C. is where. And that's going to be. So yeah, so you have to opt in for Clear plus members and then TSA keeps operational control. There's no tax payer funding for the Clear units. Interesting. Very interesting idea. So it's going to be later this month. So it's already live in Atlanta. Apparently they're going to be rolling it out in D.C. and then in Seattle later on this month. So later in August. So I'm guessing, I mean unless they mean September, but it says this month. So I'm guessing it's be. I mean it's already August 20th. We, we will see. So the how it works is that you got these real time biometric verification at the gate and that's going to replace the TSA podium check in where you, many of you, you know, you go in, you know I'm talking about you show them your ID or your passport or you show them your boarding pass, whatever they ask for at that airport. Because I've noticed it is different. And then that, that then after you get past that point you're directed to the metal detectors and all that. So TSA still triggers access and does the vetting. The price, you know, clear currently, clear plus currently is about $209 a year and it's often discounted via credit cards. Just so you know, that's from Wall Street Journal scale susp Clear testing E gates earlier this year at apparently Oakland OKC and gsp. I don't know what GSP is before the big airport rollout. Oh, so the three pilot airports are the point to a nationwide expansion to prep for the World cup slash America 250 travel spikes. That's interesting. So TSA emphasizes opt in biometrics and TSA control of gates. That's one of those things where you have to opt in. It's not something that's going to be automatic. You have to actually opt in. So it's one of those things where there are, there are, I think there are a lot of concerns that people have with this one when it comes to privacy and civil liberties and everything else. But I think that's why it's a, it's an opt in. It's, it's an option for people that are very busy, like we are a lot. For those of you that travel, this could be a really good way of streamlining things. I personally don't have a lot of issues with airports, I think that the. They're typically pretty quick, especially if you have pre check. I've got pre check and usually it saves me time. Sometimes the pre check line is longer, but that's usually whenever the lines aren't very long in general. So. But there you go. That is an interesting one. That should check out. I know it's something I'm probably going to check into. All right, the next one. This is an interesting. This is I. It's a little scrolling, a little. Little Freudian slip there. A little scary scrolling, scrolling and scary. Five ways we make ourselves less intelligent each day. And this is from Psychotic Psychology Today. And the reason why I want to bring this one up is because if you think about like what our jobs are as lawyers in general, but then as law firm owners, like our strategic edge is our thinking capacity. It really is. If you really just kind of boil it down, that's what it is. And so the. There's five common habits that are really sanding down that ability to have that thinking capacity that you need. And so here, here's where the. What the five are. And I'll give you something you can do to help your team out. But so fixed mindset, treating ability as innate. So that is having that, I guess, less of a closed mindset or less of an open mindset. So you have more of a closed fixed mindset. And then so where you. A lot of times you see this is. You're looking at other people say, oh, they're just, they're just a natural talent. I just don't have that skill set, which is BS for the most part. Right. It. Lots of times you can learn the skills that you need. Instead, you want to adopt the. And this is, I'm giving you the really the quick and dirty version of this article. They talk about adopting a, a growth framing right where. And this is going to measurably shift your performance where you have more of that growth mindset. And that's why I talk about this a lot where I've been on multiple podcasts fairly recently, where I talk about how I've got the whole rising tides viewpoint, right, where there's plenty of cases for everyone. I want to be able to build everyone else out. There's plenty of cases for everyone. There's plenty of room for growth for everyone. And I, and I do firmly believe that. That's something I firmly believe. And I think that has significantly benefited me over my career. And the ones where I see a lot of people struggle is they do have that More Okay. I just don't have that ability. Mindset. You know, there's only so many cases to go around. Those people over there doing really, really well. It's killing my business. That's just not the way. That's just not the reality. That's just. Those are constraints that you're putting on yourself. All right, let's get to the second one. Sleep restriction. So reaction time, attention, working memory. Drop whenever you are not sleeping enough. You want to protect sleep like it's a. Like a deadline or core date. Marco Brown, he. He talks about how, you know, sleeping. Well, I think it's. We said every hour you sleep is worth 10 or $15,000. I think it's. I think it's the way he put it, puts it. I probably said that wrong, but he puts a lot of emphasis on sleep. I. I'm just full. Just being brutally honest. I'm. I'm not great at this. This is something where Jeremy Danielson called me out on it because we can see each other's whoop data. Because if you have a whoop and you're in the guild, we have this whoop guild group. So he can see my data. I can see his data and showing his son my data. Because I've been working on getting better at this. This is something luckily with whoop, I can track my data and see what I'm doing wrong. But I am working on getting better, and I am getting better at that. But it is something that I do know. It is not good, not good for retention. It's not good for, like I said, reaction time, working memory. Those are all really bad. So that's. What's another thing. So that's number two. Number three is alcohol. I don't have an issue with this one. I rarely drink any alcohol. So even moderate alcohol consumption, over time, it's associated with structural brain changes. And the reason why I like that, it's from Psychology Today. So this is. It's. It's a. It's about, you know, the brain. That's what I like about. So it's from trusted sources. So this is something that's really tough. So what they recommend is that you. You reduce or you even track intake. Just tracking intake can force you to. To reduce it. Even if you don't want to just say, okay, I'm going to start drinking less. If you start tracking it, it will help. A good friend of mine, I will not mention who it is, started doing that. And they had recommended an app. I cannot remember the name of the app. But they, before they had a drink, they were supposed to read something in an app, a part of an app. And I thought it was really kind of an interesting thing if, if I will reach out to that person and ask them if I can share the app. And I'll try to put it in the show notes. But that was, that was an interesting way of approaching alcohol. Number four is no structure. So you have no structure to your day. If you looked at my calendar, you'd think it'd give you a seizure, but I think that that helps me quite a bit. Procrastination correlates with executive function impairment. So if you're having executive function impairment, which also could mean maybe an issue with adhd, but that's another topic for another day. We've had episodes about that. So you can check those out if you want to, but you're, you want to use deadlines and open loops to resume quickly. Okay, so boom, you, you loop back into it, Loom back into it, loop back into it. You want to have that structure. You want to put as much structure around your day as possible. And number five, bad inputs slash environments. So moods and cognition drift toward your information diet. Okay, so think about what you're putting into your brain. Okay, so I don't, I don't know the actual phrase, but basically if you put it in, put bad stuff in, bad stuff's going to come out, right? That's just how it works. So good stuff comes in, good stuff's going to come out. So just as if think about if you were eating, what, what, what sort of foods are you eating? Same thing with your brain. What is your brain consuming? You want to be consuming healthy, healthy things and not toxic things. So these, these are the things that are dulling your brain. Here's sort of a, a team thing you can do to help with your team where maybe you do. You. Everyone tracks their sleep for a month and you, everyone needs to focus on an average of 7 hours of sleep minimum. Okay. Make sure you track that. And then you focus on. And this is dependent on how much you will drink. So maybe two week nights alcohol free, or maybe, you know, four out, four nights alcohol free. Everyone commits to that. You do the third part of this. Maybe you have a couple of two 90 minute deep work blocks a day where everyone's just grinding away, getting work done, focused work. And then the fourth part of this is maybe you can mute. So that means like, you know, just turn off three low value channels of information that's coming in towards you. So Maybe that's a social media. One of those may be a social media. Another one might be like a person and maybe another one might be a television channel that you've been watching so much. So any, any if you can recognize three of those low value inputs you turn, you can just mute those, turn those off. And then the fifth part of this is doing a weekly once a week, just a content cleanup where you go through and you, you figure out what content are you consuming and you get rid of anything that you don't think should be in your life anymore. So that was an interesting little thing you can do with your team to, to challenge them and everyone improve a little bit. It's good. All right, let's get on to our next story. Today we're getting into it's doom scrolling. So this is somewhat similar to what we were I was just talking about but it's, that's why I put them back to back. So they are somewhat similar but this is from Men's Health UK and I think this is a, this is a really interesting one. And they, they make the case that doom scrolling that it hijacks the dopamine and attention and then what they do is they, they offer three steps to break the cycle. If you've been doom scrolling I know that I am every once in a while guilty of this whenever I'm bored. That's, that's something that. So I need to keep myself busier but so it's very good. So here's what the, what they talk about is the. It's chronic exposure to negative feeds leads to stress, sleep disruption and there's also a bunch of attention costs. Harvard has documented the mental and physical ripple effects and practical ways to cut back. So here's the three steps that you can use to help reduce this. So it is so you time box your news. So you have two daily windows and then you can also use screen time on your phone if you're or digital well being also another app limits. You can actually use those limits on your phones but you use just two daily windows. Okay so you're time boxing so where you can actually consume and then you want to use friction and curation. So you're going to remove apps from your home screen. That's creating that friction. You want to switch to grayscale which I thought was kind of an interesting thing and then unfollow rage accounts. So that's, that's the curation part of it. Okay. I think this, the switching to grayscale is a pretty extreme but who knows? I'm guessing it'll help. But you're the, the. You're creating that friction by removing. And that is very similar to some of the things that a world without email talks about is creating that friction. Because that's the problem with with chat is that there is no friction. You can just fire off a message in no time. You want to create some friction, but friction curation. So remove the apps grayscale and then unfollow rage accounts, which I think will help quite a bit because I, I did that and I regularly do that and sometimes I find myself re following people that I probably shouldn't. But that's why you got to go back and clean again. Clean again. Clean. I just did that yesterday where I added a YouTube channel two weeks ago and then I just removed them yesterday. Just something, something you got to do. And then the third part is replace with dose actions. So walk outside, brief workout, call a friend to reset the brain chemistry. So you do something. Just. It's a, you know, sort of a reset where you do a. Or a pattern interrupt is what I like to talk about quite a bit with my team is I talk about pattern interrupts. I may have mentioned this on the podcast, but we had an employee that was kind of, you know, struggling a little bit. And I just said, hey. I asked about what her. What her morning schedule is. I said, okay, well, just tomorrow, stop by Starbucks, right? You don't normally do that. Stop by Starbucks. I was like, I'll pay for it. I sent her a Starbucks gift card. I said, stop by, stop by Starbucks and let's just change the morning routine. Let's just do something. Let's just do something different than what you're normally doing. So when it comes to this part of it, when it comes to the article, you know, they're, they're suggesting, you know, healthy type of thing. So walk outside, brief workout, call a friend. But you want to, you just want to reset that brain chemistry. Here we go. Oh, there. There's something else that's. They talk about the, the. The misconception that knowing more makes you safer. And that's not really true. The extra intake creates anxiety and without adding any utility, which I thought was really interesting. So there you go. That's for men's health, so check that out. We're getting to the last story when it comes to click. So click answers. And I thought this was really interesting, so I mentioned comments. So Perplexity's Comet, I've mentioned a couple times now on the show it is really interesting. I've been using it more and more. I find myself where I'm very close to ditching Chrome and switching fully over to Comment. It is pricey. It's not. You have to pay, you have to pay for the pro plan for Perplexity or whatever the top tier. I don't, I don't know the exact, exact plan is, but it. What's really interesting is I had this idea as I've been using it more and more. And by the way, I guess I'm gonna go back to the whole Chrome thing for just a second. The reason why I've not yet switched fully is actually the show and the podcast because not. I'm not sure all, all of the apps that we use when it comes to recording, they. I'm not sure that they work in Perplexity Comment. If it, if they do, then I probably will make this the switch. If not, then I won't be able to until the, until the, all the different apps, they catch up. So that's, that's the main reason why I have not made that switch. But what I was doing and the reason why it's. This is. This topic is called Click Answers. Is that the way Comet works is that on the right side there's a little window, little chat. What makes it different from like, just like any other chat window, there's a lot of them where, you know, you can ask it questions and stuff, is that Comet can actually take over the screen of that tab that you're working in and do the work for you. And I've had it. I've. I've. I showed this on, I think it was last week's show when it comes to a spreadsheet. But I, I normally will answer, respond to my messages during office hours and click on the Qlik app, Zoho Click App. Because that's the equivalent to Slack, Zoho's equivalent to Slack. And what I did was I was like, you know what, I'm gonna log into the browser version and I'm gonna see if it will respond to the messages. So I wanted, I didn't want it to do it automatically because I was a little concerned about what the responses might be. So I first said I had it gather different comments that tagged me or direct messages that I had received because that's how we, we deal with it in Click. Is that if it's someone that tags you or if it's a direct message to you, then that's, that's how I know to go and look at. Well, it did that and it had it create responses. So it did that and create a response and it did a really, really good job of. I, I didn't make any changes to any, any of them. I only had it respond to two because I want to see how it would do. But it, so it created the responses and I said, okay, now post the responses. And it did it, it did it flawlessly. It did it amazingly, which really, really has opened my mind to what like even more things that we can do with it. And I think I was being a little close minded as to, you know, we're talking about the first story being, or maybe the third story about being closed minded when it comes to things, but I think I was being really closed minded when it comes to comment. And you can do so many things with it. That's what it's so powerful. And what's cool is you can take it and you can, you can have it running in multiple different tabs. I had. So I was talking about this yesterday during the Q and A. I was actually talking to Jeremy Danielson. We have a guild Q and A and I. So I have three screens. I'm. I'm looking at three screens right now. I'm actually at my normal work desk whenever I'm recording. Typically I'm usually at the studio at home or I'm at the studio that's over here to my right that you all can't see. But we're, we're doing a little reconfiguration with that. And because I want, I just wanted to. The, the background's too far away so we're, we're changing all that. But I've got the three screens in front of me and then I have the ones I'm looking at right now. There's two, I actually have two windows open on that. That's usually how I typically work. So on my left I've got two screens and then right in front of me I've two windows open. And at one time, I mean yesterday morning I was crushing everything because I was just going through and I was getting so much work done because I was getting things set and just coming back to it, right. It was doing these manual tasks for me that were fairly time consuming tasks. And coming back, I was coming back checking on it, okay, boom, now do this, now do that. And it was really eye opening as to what all the work I could do with it yesterday. It was so cool. And then it did the thing with click and it was like, it really kind of opened up the floodgates for me on the things I'm gonna be doing with it. So really cool. I thought I might, I would share that with you all. Something for you all to test out. Oh my gosh, I got so much work done yesterday. It was, it was really incredible. So like think about this. Like have it edit your briefs and stuff. Like actually like you draft a brief or something and let's say you do it in Google Docs. You're just say hey, go through and look for even if you just instead of you just generally having an edit, say okay, look for any punctuation errors, something like that. Boom. It it'll go through and it will identify those two for you. And then you say okay, fix them and it'll fix them for you. Really incredible stuff. So I'd share this. You all I think is really cool, but excellent. 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