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PJ Milani | Visual Teacher💡 Profile picture
@milanicreative
Jul 1 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
4 Sobering reminders from real data about how we actually spend our time 👇

🔘 Total Time You Have With Your Children

Important Reminder:
• Be present, even and especially during the most challenging times.

🔘 Total Time You Have With Your Parents

Important Reminder:
• Honor the limited time you have with your family.

🔘 Total Time You Have With Your Friends

Important Reminder:
• Choose the friends you share your time with wisely.

🔘 Hours of the Day Spent Alone

Important Reminder:
• Embody the kind of person you'd want to be around.

As the source name--American Time Use Survey--might suggest, the data doesn't appear to survey cultures outside the Western region and how they may spend time differently.

Especially when it comes to family time.
A big shout out to @SahilBloom for introducing this data and thinking last year.

It sat with me so long I had to visualize it through my own lens.

If you want to learn more important ideas fast through visuals check out more of my work:
This account exists to help you

• clarify your stories
• simplify complex ideas
• amplify your creative voice

Follow me @milanicreative and deepen your visual thinking💡

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PJ Milani | Visual Teacher💡 Profile picture
May 6
We must all suffer from one of two pains:
the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
-Jim Rohn Image
In high school, I had this T-shirt I loved from a brand called "No Fear."

On the back said:
"There's nothing in life more painful than regret."

I think about that a lot.

Especially when it comes to creating online -- something I wanted to start 10 years ago.
But didn't.

Valid reasons:
• childcare
• taking care of parents
• full-time demanding job

Less valid reasons:
• didn't know how
• fear of judgment
• thinking "someday"

But I knew reconnecting with the creative process would make me a clearer thinker and a better teacher.
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Apr 29
If you want to excel under pressure, remember this critical principle:

The Yerkes-Dodson Law 🧵 Top segment: Hands placing ...
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?

A psychological study that concludes:
• no stress = no motivation
• intense stress = blinding anxiety
• moderate stress = optimal focus

Let's take an example we're all familiar with--
Studying for an Exam. Image
❌ Too Little Stress:
• No reason to worry so you barely study
• You learn nothing so you bomb

❌ Too Much Stress:
• Your anxiety's so high you can't concentrate
• You can't remember anything and fail

✅ Just Right Stress:
• Your nerves fuel your focus
• You kill the test
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Apr 22
I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations.

Here're 10 of them to help you make better decisions 🧵 :

1. Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule):

Simplified: the larger chunk of your results come from a small portion of what you're doing Image
2. Parkinson's Law:

Work expands to fill the time available to complete it.
• If you have an hour, it takes an hour
• If you have a week, it takes a week Image
3. Grice's Razor:

Address what the person you're speaking means, instead of the literal meaning of what they actually say Image
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Apr 21
Beware the path of least resistance. Image
Most people wait to make tough decisions because:

• Too many options (paradox of choice)
• Facing a dilemma (both options are unpleasant)
• Assuming there's a "right" choice (analysis paralysis)

So the urgent tasks always overshadow the important ones.
There's a fine line between thoughtful reflection and willful procrastination.

My son just finished his science project, though he fought me tooth and nail to get started.

When we talked about why, I realized it was because he was afraid to get it wrong.

So I asked him:
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Jan 9
The most powerful skill in the world?

Storytelling.

But it takes years to master and 99% of storytelling advice is overly complicated.

I've spent 10000 hours studying storytelling over the last 20 years.

Here're the 3 most common mistakes in under 3 min(and how to fix them):
Mistake 1: Writing in PAST tense.

Why it's wrong:
• Past tense--reports what happened
• Present tense--experiences what's happening
Mistake 2: Forgetting the SETTING

Why it's wrong:
• The audience needs a visual foothold in your story
• Without setting, it's like watching a movie with half the screen gone
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Jan 8
Nicolas Cole wrote over 200 threads since 2019 generating over 50,000,000 views.

Dickie Bush went from 900 followers to 300,000 in 24 months.

How?

The two created Ship30for30 to teach exactly that.

Here're their top 3 writing frameworks (so you can start using them today):
1) Lean Writing Framework

Traditional Writing:
• slow--takes years to complete
• uncertain--guessing what audience wants
• alone--no audience till finished

Lean Writing:
• fast--complete at the speed of tweet
• precise--immediate feedback
• social--done WITH audience
How to Use it:
• Don't spend hours, months, years writing a book before testing "what works"--start small:
• Write a tweet → identify best tweets and expand to:
• Threads → turn best threads to:
• Newsletters → turn best newsletters into a digital product
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