Brian McCarthy

I help people form and perform their ideas. I'm a speaker, teacher and experience-designer in the areas of Leadership, Communication and Productivity.

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@DFS_MWC very inspiring and also great fun facilitating the working sessions for DFS today. Well done to participants and also my super team of facilitators @CeciliaMTham @larsst @luciacrespo7

[Digital Future Society @DFS_MWC]

Thank you all for your participation in our working session. Hope to see you all very soon! #dfs_ws20 #digitalfuturesociety

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@TomFrankly Thanks so much for the speedy and in-depth reply. I’m delighted to hear that I can use the database with my parter and the limitation you expertly outline don’t affect me. I’ll be buying your template.

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@TomFrankly hi! I’m interested in your Notion Ultimate Second Brain template, but before buying I’d like to know if I can use it with my business partner? Can we use it together and assign tasks to each other inside the template? Thanks!

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@vueling Yo recibí el email y compré otro billete. Después, recibí el email explicando que era un error. Quiero que me duvuelven el dinero que me costo en comprar el billete nuevo. He escrito un DM a Vueling pero aun esperando respuesta...

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@LiscannorGAA huge congratulations to all the team! Magnificent achievement. Had to check twice that my eyes weren’t deceiving me and that it was Brian Considine (and not perhaps a Brian Junior) that stuck that incredible winning point! Wish I had been there to see it.

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

Tagging an interesting microtrend that also looks important: a “step-by-step” ethos developing momentum. A general interest in break-king illegible learning processes into their component steps and refining them. A kind of process skill mindfulness. Like 6-sigma but for learning.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Couldn’t agree more

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Jung

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

"All genuine learning is active, not passive….It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher."
~Mortimer Adler

[Justin Mikolay 🛰️ @jmikolay]

I’ve served aboard a nuclear submarine, worked at a multi-billion-dollar private tech company, and helped people lead the world’s largest organizations.

Here are 20 of the most powerful, non-obvious ideas in professional life:

[Virginio Gallardo @virginiog]

Me gusta el Modelo de los cuatro Pilares de la Educación- Unesco

Me gusta que el primer pilar sea Aprende sea Conocer que tiene que ver con la Curiosidad Intelectual que permite descifrar la realidad e incrementar nuetro saber

Un modelo útil a cualquier edad
#Longlifelearning

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

@JulianMartinezA @fortelabs Also, how did you charge corporate clients for in-person training if it wasn't you doing the training? Is there a difference in price between "session delivered by Tiago" and "tiago's system taught by a member of his team".

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

From @yanisvaroufakis' sf novel ANOTHER NOW, the absolute best description of the scam of #InvestmentBanking I've ever read.

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

TED tiene el efecto de un subidón de azúcar. Está bien por unos minutos, pero realmente necesitas comer algo de verduras https://t.co/9eGX3z82Wo

[David Perell @david_perell]

Warren Buffett addresses the early drafts of his shareholder letters to his sister, Dorothy.

Once he finishes it, he replaces her name with "Shareholders."

The lesson: Writing for a huge audience is a fast track to getting writer's block, so write for one person instead.

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

Story vs narrative

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

Bad copywriting:

• Here's my product
• Here's what it does
• Here's what's so good about it

Good copywriting:

• Here's your problem
• Here's the benefit of solving it
• Here's why what you've tried has failed
• And by the way here's a product that will help you solve it

[Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón @edusadeci]

Es más fácil construir una buena persona y que se convierta en un buen profesional que preparar un buen profesional y que se convierta en una buena persona.

El principal objetivo de la educación es ayudar a construir buenas personas.

Si no pa qué!?

[trash jones @jzux]

adulthood is wild because one day you get a little sleepy and then you stay that way for the rest of your life

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

#moonshots

[Brian McCarthy @elucidatetweets]

When the world is in trouble we need to listen more to the disruptive innovators and their stories. However, their stories should unite us in a shared vision through narrative, and not just tell of conflict and resolution in their stories @pabloryr #storytelling #moonshots