Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement

What is Actually Important? How to stop reacting to news and non-events


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Have you ever wondered how important something really is, yet lacked a reference point to put it into context?

These days news, apps, jobs or neighbours comments all seem to be infinitely important and it's somewhat distracting. If you want to actually do stuff you need to know what is important and screen out the rest.

Sam shares a framework for working out the impact of any idea or event that adds context to anything around you. From an idea in the shower to nuclear weapons everything has it's place



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        00:00 Why is everything important???

        01:53 Innovation Richter Scale

        03:40 Why create a Scale?

        05:59 Earthquake Metaphor

        08:22 Invention, Innovation, Technology

        08:22 Ranking Magnitude not Morality

        09:29 The innovation richter Scale - Level 1 - 10

        09:31 Level 1 - Shower thoughts

        09:50 Level 2 - Actioned Idea (In private)

        10:09 Level 3 - Public ideas (Not popular)

        11:38 Level 4 - Popular and commercial ideas

        12:29 Level 5 - Defining Brand

        13:59 Level 6 - Innovation of the year

        17:20 Level 7 - Innovation of the Decade

        19:40 Level 8 - Innovation of the Century

        22:55 Level 9 - Innovation of the Era

        25:20 Level 10 - Species Epoch

        29:57 Outro - Using the scale

        32:00 What is really important?

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