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CAPN's Blog · Jan 27, 2024

A Polarity: Be a Gentle Pest

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Nathan Cook · CAPN's Blog

Instead of a dedicated post for Polarities, with many examples, I'll be posting individual examples.

See Polarity Thinking 101: An Introduction to the Power of Polarities (+ Visuals) for a deep dive.

My first engineering boss used this phrase early in my USAF civilian career.

"Learn to be a gentle pest. Enough of a pest that they can't forget about you. Gentle enough that they answer your messages."

The polarity diagram for this would look like this:

The BEST of both gentleness and pestering results in effective action.

The WORST of either gentleness and pestering results in ineffective shunning or ignoring.

Read the original on capnsblog.substack.com

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