#business #work-in-progress Hey! I have this idea running for a while, I think many of the people we are interacting with on a daily basis are aware of some of our weaknesses but don't evoke it, by politeness. But isn't politeness a iatrogenic? That is, we think it is better to be polite to others, but the truth is that it is, sometimes, actually harmful? So the idea is to try extract this information from people minds, which could help us improve some of our traits that we don't notice, maybe we would not consider these weaknesses though, but there is nothing much to lose anyway? I tried this with a friend of mine (my cofounder), I asked him directly: "What are my weaknesses?" and he told me that I was hesitating too much in explaining things and using a lot of "eh" in sentences. I was kind of aware of the first one, but not of the second one. Now I am taking theater classes. Anyway, this process is still kind of hard to apply and do not generalize, I am interested if, whether, it is possible to find / build a list of challenges to give to people, in work or any aspects of life, that would sort of add shocks to the daily basis and eventually improve some of our weaknesses? Of course we can find challenges that are more suited to some people (say, "try to seduce a random girl in the street", for the shy, or "try to speak less than 50 words in a meeting", for the talkative), but i'll try to start with some general examples and I'll let you complete my prompt (sorry about that GPT3 joke): ``` This is a list of challenges to gives to your colleagues, friends, any acquintance, that would add shocks to their life and habits, and eventually make them grow: - In a conversation, listen to the other person(s), do not bring your own experience in the conversation, focus on the other(s). - Go to a random country, say, India, with nothing but your clothes, no money. Survive one week. - When going to an event/party together, act as if you don't know eachother. ```