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Yeager Learned Pausing The Hard Way
- Chuck Yeager learned to 'pause' during high-altitude stalls by accidentally passing out.
- He trained himself to do nothing briefly so the plane could descend into denser air and regain control.
Use Strategic Pauses In Talks
- Insert deliberate pauses into negotiations and conversations to improve outcomes.
- Pauses give cognition time and signal thoughtful listening, enlarging the negotiation pie.
Fail Sometimes To Learn Effectively
- An optimal success-to-failure learning ratio exists; you need some failures to learn.
- Too few failures means underlearning; too many failures demotivates — roughly one failure every six attempts is near optimal.