981: Using AI to Enhance Your Reading, Notes, Memory, and Decisions with Kwame Christian
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Fellow podcaster Kwame Christian giggles with Pete as he shares his insights and lessons learned on a novel notetaking approach.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to listen and understand audio at 3X speed
2) How notetaking improves your decision-making
3) How AI can make a fun soundtrack for your life
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— ABOUT KWAME —
Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, business lawyer and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI).
Following the viral success of his TedxDayton talk, Kwame released his best-seller Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life in 2018. He’s also a regular Contributor for Forbes and the host of the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything – which currently has over 5 million downloads worldwide. Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has coached and trained several Fortune 500 companies on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success.
Kwame was the recipient of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2020 and the Moritz College of Law Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award 2021. He is the only person in the history of The Ohio State University to win alumni awards in consecutive years from the law school and the masters of public affairs program. That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.
• Instagram: @kwamenegotiates
• LinkedIn: Kwame Christian
• Podcast: Negotiate Anything Premium
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Song: Rise and Shine Pete
• Book: The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed by Robin Dreeke, Cameron Stauth
• Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering
• Past episode: 976: How (and When) to Freely Speak Your Mind with Elaine Lin Hering
• App: Voice Dream Reader
• App: Suno AI
• Study: Gandhi and the Anchoring Effect, Strack & Mussweiler, 1997
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| 0:00.0 | I believe that we just live life decision to decision and so the quality of our life is going to be contingent upon the quality of the decisions that we make. |
| 0:15.6 | So if I can learn how to make better decisions, then I will have a better life. |
| 0:21.6 | Pretty simple. |
| 0:23.0 | For me, memory is nothing without retention, |
| 0:26.0 | so I want to make sure that I'm going over these things with regularity, |
| 0:29.0 | so it becomes encoded in my memory at a deeper level. |
| 0:32.0 | Once you start to identify those... in my memory at a deeper level. |
| 0:33.0 | Once you start to identify those patterns, you can start to anticipate when a bad decision will come, |
| 0:39.0 | and then you can start to force yourself to put yourself in a better mental and emotional position to make a better decision in the future. |
| 0:46.0 | That's Kwame Christian. |
| 0:51.0 | He's the CEO of the American Negotiation Institute and hosted the world's most popular negotiation podcast called Negotiate Anything, which currently has over 6 million downloads worldwide. |
| 1:00.0 | Comi's got a book and a TEDx talk and a whole lot more, but today we're just a couple |
| 1:03.6 | buddies chatting about his cool note-taking approach. This episode has more fun |
| 1:07.5 | tangential banter and a little bit less of the rapid-fire, Insight, Insight, Insight. |
| 1:12.1 | So let me know what you think about this kind of different |
| 1:15.0 | flavor of episode, but you're still going to learn one, how to listen and understand audio at 3X |
| 1:20.1 | plus speeds, two, how note taking improves your decision making and three, how AI can make |
| 1:26.3 | a fun soundtrack for your life. I'm Pete Bekitis. This is how to be awesome at your job and now |
| 1:31.2 | here's Kwame. |
| 1:37.0 | Kwame welcome back. Hey, thanks for having everybody. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, this is fun. |
| 1:40.0 | We are not going to talk about negotiation or persuasion or psychology directly or diversity |
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