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Apr 29, 2022

In this week’s newsletter: Reverse Psychology, Kevin Kelly’s 70th birthday, transition to web3, and last day to join the first cohort of One5.Club

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Every Wednesday, I publish one essay & 10 interesting things that will help you become healthy, wealthy and wise 👇

Essay of the week

If you are reading this, that means the reverse psychology trick worked.

I believe some part of us will always have that child-like curiosity no matter how old we get.

When we ask someone not to do something, we always do it.

So this week I wanted to try this out. I tweeted out saying “Do not read my header”

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Do not read my header ❌

Here’s what my header + bio looks like 👇

And it worked. Over 5k people read the tweet and I saw a huge bump in website visits.

Here are some more examples of Reverse Psychology marketing:

Add reverse psychology to your marketing tactics and watch the numbers get a bump.

Tomorrow is the last day to join the One5.Club as we are starting the first cohort this Sunday (1st May 2022)

To our newsletter readers, I’m giving out 50% scholarships.

UPI is also available (₹499 for the first cohort)

10 Interesting things for you 🙌

1. Kevin Kelly’s 1000 true fans is one of my all-time favourite blogs today is his birthday and he shared 103 bits of advice I wish I had known (Blog)

2. Something from my Twitter👇

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The biggest time waste of all is making young minds forcefully remember stuff that don’t make sense to get marks that don’t matter.

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The last one is for real.

3. How to write more clearly, think more clearly and learn complex material (Blog)

4. Transition to web3 - guide for non-technical roles (resources)

5. Interesting Human of the week:- Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor. (read more)

6. Question of the week:-

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You meet your 13-year-old self, but you can only tell them 4 words. What do you say and why?

7. Picture of the week:- I was in Chennai and I saw this digital billboard thing in a big gated society.

Taking things out of context just because it becomes an exciting headline is very bad when they trigger curiosity in young minds.

Ofcourse it was a joke.

8. Current read: Couldn’t read much. Kept travelling. Also, if you are in BLR, let’s meet.

9. Meme of the week:- Few understand this

10. Quote of the week:

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy
(Tweet this quote)
“Maybe our favourite quotations say more about us than the stories and people we’re quoting” - John Green
(Tweet this quote)
If you truly want to know how rich you are, drop a tear and see how many hands come to wipe that tear - Gaur Gopal Das
(Tweet this quote)

Check out some previous newsletters:

Diderot Effect (Read)
Life’s lines of Closeness (Read)
Cathedral Thinkers (Read)

Join in if you want me to trigger your curiosity every week👇

Personal Announcement 🚨

We are 32 people strong now for the first cohort of One5.Club

Join the club, develop a habit, make new friends and win NFTs. Tomorrow is the last day to join the club.

UPI is accepted too.

Prado out 🚀

P.S: I’m super excited to build this community of disciplined and interesting minds.

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