Minisode Monday #67 | Dabbling: Not Just for Dilettantes

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🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind author Dr. Srini Pillay rejoins us to talk about how we can benefit from the seemingly meandering path of dabbling to unlock creativity and make useful connections between disparate interests. Let's get to it! The Cheat Sheet: If you're only looking forward and focusing on a task you've set out to tackle, your brain is only using a small portion of its resources. To access the rest, understand the power of dabbling. We need regular distractions from our primary course of action -- like hobbies. If you engage in a hobby for one hour a day, you can prolong life and protect your brain from dementia. Hobbies also trigger the brain's unfocused mode, which activates your creative circuits and helps you make connections you might otherwise miss. It was by this dabbling that Steve Jobs applied what he learned in calligraphy class to create fonts for Apple. This week, make sure to listen to Dr. Srini Pillay's full episode on harnessing the power of your unfocused mind and give some thought to how it can help you connect your own disparate interests. To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response or write to Jordan directly: [email protected] (he actually reads everything)! Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-67-dabbling-not-just-dilettantes/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. We'll take you step by step to becoming better at making personal and professional connections, becoming a better networker, increasing your personal social capital and charisma. This is for both men and women! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Listen to The Art of Charm, Cold Case Files, and hundreds of your favorite podcasts with the free PodcastOne app (on iOS and Android) here! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	Hey, Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm. Welcome to Mini-Sodemunday, your weekly
0:04.7	shot of personal development espresso. Happy to be here with you kicking off the week with
0:08.9	something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that'll make you more
0:13.5	magnetic and effective.
0:15.6	We're back with Dr. Srini Palay, author of Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try. One of the stories
0:21.0	in the book was about dabbling and it was about Steve Jobs and how he had come to create
0:26.9	Mac fonts. Can you tell us the story and I've got a question about how this works in
0:31.6	the brain.
0:32.6	The story that I told is relates to the fact that dabbling can really be helpful, that
0:36.8	it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a dilatant. And Steve Jobs, when he decided to
0:40.8	drop out of college, decided to take a class in calligraphy. And when he did, he learned
0:46.0	all these beautiful fonts, but it had no purpose in his life, no context. He was just
0:50.3	kind of randomly interested in it. And so later on, when it came time to choose fonts for
0:56.0	Apple, he realized that this class in calligraphy actually was something that he could draw on
1:02.6	in order to create these fonts. And he makes the point very succinctly that in life, you
1:08.6	often cannot join the dots moving forward. Like you may have no idea why you're doing what
1:13.2	you're doing right now. But only when you look back in your life, can you realize that
1:18.9	there are connections between what you're doing and what you're used to do. And I think
1:23.2	probably a lot of people are asking, well, that's great. But like, how do I know when
1:26.4	this is going to work? And how do I know when it's not going to work? The answer is you
1:29.2	don't. I mean, you never know. But what is important is this studies have shown that
1:34.4	if you engage even in a hobby for one hour a day, every day, you can protect your brain
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