How To Put On Your Cape-abilities
In this blog post, you’ll continue to find strategies that you can use to shake up your thinking and unleash your innovation superpowers. Each post defines a tool you need, gives you a summary of what that tool can do for you, some questions that stir your thinking, and an exercise to get you started using the tool. You can either use the tools from start to finish to understand all the tools in your toolkit or you can pick up any tool — play around, use it, and discover how it works for you.
The next ability in our Cape-ability series is … Excite-ability
Vocabulary.com defines Excitability as: “Reactivity, responsiveness to stimulation. Being easily excited.”
Gert’s definition is: “Your ability to transfer your excitement about your ideas to others, so that they have genuine excitement and buy-in.”
Once you get people to believe in your brilliant thoughts, it’s time to build momentum and garner passion and excitement around your ideas and plans. Find a way to pulse out information that keeps the intrigue going.
Creating anticipation of what’s to come (teasing, if you will) helps keep the audience’s interest and keeps your plans relevant. Build on people’s needs, stimulate their curiosity in what is to come heightens their expectations.
Excitability is contagious. People will want to participate in your idea when you can infect others with this same suspense for what’s to come, it creates swirl and disruptive buzz in the grooviest of ways.
“Whatever you’re doing, give it all you got, share your passion, excitement and enthusiasm and let your vibe and energy become an inspiration to others.”
Provocative Q’s to ask yourself:
Exercises to help you explore Excite-ability:
What would you never do to build excitement around your idea and how can you twist it to make it work for you? Why do you find those ideas so naughty that they make you giggle? Now, how might you replicate those ideas into pulses that you can actually use?
--gert--
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