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You know what I need a little bit more of is focus on the locals comments on my second device. Then we'll have something.
Well, as tradition requires, I'll be reading you a reframe from my book, the best book in the world, "Reframe Your Brain," changing people's lives everywhere, one sentence at a time. So we've been doing one reframe a day. We'll actually get through the whole book if I survive. All right, we'll see how far we get.
Here we go. We already did that one. I want to pick the best one. All right. Here's one that's a little cynical, but it's also really, really useful. You ready for this?
The usual frame is that your hard work will be rewarded. Do you think that's true? Do you think it's true that people would notice if you're a hard worker and they will reward you? That's kind of true. So the normal frame, true-ish. They'll recognize your hard work and you'll be rewarded.
But here's a reframe that's better than that. The illusion of hard work will be rewarded. The illusion of hard work. If you would just come in five minutes earlier than your boss, your boss will have a greater illusion of how hard you work. If you could find a way to stay later, five minutes, than your boss, your boss again will think that you're working really hard. Maybe it was only five minutes. If you carry papers around when you walk back and forth in the hallway, it'll look like you're on a mission. If you have nothing in your hand when you're walking back and forth, no laptop, no phone, it just looks like you're going to the restroom.
So I would argue that you should do what my co-workers did. My old boss, the one who actually named Dilbert, he came
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up with the name Dilbert. He used to answer all questions about how you doing with answers about how hard he's working. And at first I didn't really realize the brilliance of it. But over time it's sort of a Trumpian hypnosis that makes you think he's the hardest working guy. And I'm here to tell you I loved my old boss, Mike Goodwin. Great guy. But he was not the hardest working guy in the office…
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