Live Your Life Like a Supervillain

How you can improve your life by taking strategies from supervillains.

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1. Live Your Life Like a Supervillain by Patrick Rauland @BFTrick
2. What am I doing here!?
3. Who Am I?
4. Who Am I? • Online Educator for Lynda.com / LinkedIn Learning • Former Product Manager for WooCommerce • Developer background
5. WooCommerce Bookings https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/
6. What do you do? • Developers • Support • Project / Product managers
7. Is there anyone who hasn’t seen Avengers: Infinity War?
10. Impressive Qualities (and very questionable ethics) • Singular vision • Dream big • Don’t hold themselves back • Ignore the haters • Allies • Plan for the unknown
11. Singular Vision AKA Focus
12. Harvey Dent - Gotham’s White Knight
14. Women’s Suffrage Movement • Two groups ◦ National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) ▪ Wanted national recognition ◦ American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) ▪ Wanted to go state by state
15. Am I Clear? • Business: document the process to build a physical product from scratch • Family: call parents once a week • Romance: ??? • Money: ??? • Spirituality: find a zen meditation group • Health: run & practice acroyoga • Personal: make a board game The 7 Circles from The ONE Thing: (https://www.the1thing.com/)
16. Dream BIG Don’t hold yourself back Think 0 -> 1
17. Natural Talent Isn’t Always Good • Child prodigies rarely change the world • As they win awards they keep practicing. They don’t learn to do anything new. They consume existing knowledge; not produce new insights. • Achievement motivated
19. Two Ways to Innovate: 1. 1 to N 2. 0 to 1
22. "If you don’t look back at yourself and think, “Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,” then you must not have learned much in the last year." - Ray Dalio
23. Ignore the Haters Embrace the Weird
24. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-small-acts-thoughtful-rebellion-can-increase-your-francesca-gino/
26. We squash a low status member who challenges the status quo - while we applaud a high status member who challenges the status quo
27. Idiosyncrasy Credits • Before you can change a group you need to earn a least a few idiosyncrasy credits ◦ Do something impressive ◦ Reinforce group norms • Then you can spend your idiosyncrasy credits being unusual. Ex. I’m a morning person and I’m always on time. When I meet people in the morning they know I’m the type of person who is always on time. Once in a blue moon when I’m not on time they believe me that something happened.
30. Build Allies
31. Suffrage + Temperance
32. Expect to go Off-the-Rails • Humans love to plan • How do you plan? ◦ Waterfall ◦ Agile ◦ Something else
33. Goals • We tend to complete the easiest ones first • We never really get to the big hard goals • Studies have shown if you do use goals and they’re too big you actually become demotivated
36. Most Important Task (MIT) • Each day has one MIT • I have 2-3 hours of work time (without meetings) every morning to get it done. • Everything after that is gravy Most Important Task Popularized by ZenHabits https://zenhabits.net/purpose-your-day-most-imp ortant-task/
37. Supervillains are Super Efficient
41. Be clear, don’t hold yourself back, think in new creative ways, if you have a crazy idea build up good will, focus on common ground, and give yourself enough margin in life to handle uncertainty.
42. Thanks!
43. Books • Originals • Smarter Faster Better • Zero to One