Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren

Yesterday, my son had a crucial audition. He's a grown, driven, talented man now, so I didn't say much ... but here's what I did say.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/875:-Being-Yourself

Napoleon landed in France in 1793, four years after the French Revolution had started. He was a penniless artillery lieutenant.

Six years later he ruled France.

Sometimes its easy to forget that we live in a meritocracy – however flawed – and that the responsibility to move up is ours to take or squander.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/874:-Meritocracy

In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands Islands.

The invasion was partly triggered by the UK's decision to recall a Royal Navy Ice Patrol Vessel, HMS Endurance, and save $2.5 million. The Argentine generals saw this as evidence that the UK was pulling back from it's commitments, and took their chance.

That decision to save $2.5 million eventually cost the UK around $7 billion.

It's rarely to see the consequences of upstream decisions so starkly drawn, but we are all living the consequences of decisions we made days, weeks or decades ago.

Likewise, the decisions we make today may affect our lives tomorrow, next week or in the year 2050.

From time to time then, it's worth taking a step back and thinking about long-term consequences.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/873:-An-Ounce-Of-Prevention

In his brilliant book, Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, Hugh MacLeod has this to say.

Nobody Cares. Do it for yourself.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/872:-This-Might-Not-Work

Yesterday's podcast, and the associated page delivered on Sprint 4, but Sprint 5 will be a little different.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/871:-Sprint-5-Book-Selling

I want to share something with you that's really helped me. It's been the engine behind the podcast.

And it's a little weird.

This episodes illustrates a completely different kind of story that means business ... the daft and dreamlike world of the memory palace. If you are the kind of person who's looking to really understand and integrate the world, this is for you.

Every memory champion in the world uses some variation of these basic ideas.

Take a peek inside my memory palace.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/870:-The-Memory-Palace

When we try new stuff, we make mistakes. 

I've been doing that over the past 2-3 episodes and you guys have been the unlucky recipients of gaps, pauses and edits.

Such is the price of progress, whatever business we are into.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/869:-Testing-Fallout

As with most of Ricky Gervais' work, Afterlife season 3 is a schizophrenic mix of beautifully observed humanity ... and toilet humour.

I loved it and hated it in equal measure. There there are whole scenes (and characters) I'd happily never hear from again, but the point is this... When you are as good at the fundamentals as Ricky Gervais, you open up some serious options to try things out.

In this case, I think that large parts of Afterlife are just a massive fucking joke played on Netflix and the rest of us. How far can we be pushed and keep watching?

Quite far, as it turns out.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/868:-Afterlife-Season-3

Yesterday, I got the chance to meet and talk to three extraordinary people.

And here's the thing ... each of them became extraordinary by focusing on doing the fundamentals REALLY REALLY WELL.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/867:-Relentless-Bloody-Progress

Today, we're circling back to Robert Cialdini's classic work, Influence - and adding the NEW 7th principle from his 2021 new edition.

#Reciprocation, #Commitment & #Consistency, #Social Proof, #Liking, #Authority, #Scarcity and #Unity.

Episode home:

https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/866:-Under-The-Influence