{"id":10863,"date":"2018-10-01T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:15:34","slug":"good-leaders-us-24x3-optimism-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/good-leaders-us-24x3-optimism-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Why most good leaders use the 24×3 optimism method"},"content":{"rendered":"

That biting, guilt-inducing voice says you can\u2019t<\/em>, and that won\u2019t work<\/em>. It\u2019s an abrasive voice, one that explodes before rational thought, one that puts others down before it pulls them up.<\/p>\n

We may argue that so many responsibilities tug at us that it may simply be self preservation that turns on our pessimism, fear of the unknown, aversion to change.<\/p>\n

We live in a world of critics, in a society of naysayers, so why shouldn\u2019t we join them?<\/p>\n

Trusting our negative guts can be toxic to a life of innovation, and perhaps the next great idea is something that today you\u2019re sure just won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Optimism is practice, just like any good habit, and parents and managers and executives everywhere could use a good dose. It sounds hokey, but hang with me…<\/p>\n

Think about optimism using the 24\/3 rule, a term coined by Venture Capitalist, CEO and author Anthony Tjan.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s name makes it sound way more complicated than it actually is but he provides a practical path to put optimism into daily practice.<\/p>\n

When you first hear an idea, try to wait 24 seconds before you respond negatively. Think of every possible reason why this could be the right idea, the best possible plan, and save your criticism for a half a minute later.<\/p>\n

Talk through the good and when 24 seconds are up, you\u2019re welcome to say why that\u2019s the worst idea you\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

Work your way up to 24 minutes of optimistic thinking, and then 24 hours. The goal here is to mull over an idea for an entire day before knocking it down. Sounds Zen doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Before your cynical brain takes over and you poo-poo this concept for wasting too much time, think about the last time you gave an idea to your manager or partner or friend and they shot it down immediately.<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it feel better if they really considered your thoughts, sat back and validated why it might work?<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if they took the day to really consider the possibilities? And wouldn\u2019t it be valuable if the positives from your idea were repurposed and used to come up with a solution?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only a valuable management tool but it\u2019s an important tool in life.<\/p>\n

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By seeing the future with rose tinted glasses and consciously considering the good in everything, you can change your own outlook.<\/p>\n

You can train your brain to think about the wild what-ifs, the myriad of possibilities. You can train your brain to consider a future full of innovations that just might work.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re the person who considers every idea, then you won\u2019t you won\u2019t be the one to miss out on anything that could be the next big invention. Naysayers will almost always reject an innovative future. You don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(MARKETING) How this simple optimism method could radically change the way you lead your company, be it a team of three or 300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337680,"featured_media":10864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1473,1474,1475,1234],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-marketing","tag-24x3","tag-optimism","tag-positivity","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/unnamed-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}