David de Souza

Writing

Popular

• The Top 1% of ThinkersThe stages of adult thinking, and how the top 1% get there.
• Advice for the Average PersonWhy advice for the average person misleads, and what to ask instead.
• The Art of Giving and Receiving ComplimentsFive levels of compliment, from throwaway to memorable.
• Discounting the Opinions of People That You LikeWe judge ideas by the messenger. Three ways to see past it.
• The Most Interesting Person in the RoomBetter openers than the three questions everyone asks.

Articles

• Advice for the Average Person
• The Art of Giving and Receiving Compliments - The 5 Levels
• Your Friends Know You Better Than You Know Yourself
• The Top 1% of Thinkers
• How to Think Like a Quantum Computer
• Margin of Safety & Checklists
• The Most Interesting Person in the Room
• Commitment & Consistency Bias
• Discounting The Opinions of People That You Like
• Getting More by Doing Less
• Start Small + Increase Small = Huge Results
• Small but Consistent
• How to Reduce Your Risk of Dying Using the 80/20 Principle
• These Few Things Have a BIG Effect on Your Happiness
• 4 Small Changes That Improved My Sleep

Mental Models for…

• 45 Mental Models For Asking Better Questions
• 33 Mental Models for Copywriting
• 49 Mental Models to be a Better StoryTeller
• 49 Mental Models For Negotiation
• 59 Mental Models for Influence
• 56 Mental Models for Persuasion

Interviews: The Lessons From…

• The Lessons from Soil Health
• The Lessons from Information Security
• The Lessons from Leadership
• The Lessons from Tai Chi
• The Lessons from Artificial Intelligence
• The Lessons from Copywriting
• The Lessons from Data Science
• The Lessons from Interpreting
• The Lessons from Investing
• The Lessons from Crypto
• The Lessons from Acting
• The Lessons from Game Development

A Marathon on Every Continent

• North America: New York City, USA
• Europe: Pisa, Italy
• Asia: Pyongyang, North Korea
• Australia: Melbourne
• South America: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Africa: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
• Antarctica: coming soon

Life Experiments

• Experiment 1: 30 Grams of Protein Within 30 Minutes of Waking
• Experiment 2: Vitamins and Supplements
• Experiment 3: Eating a Vegan Diet
• Experiment 4: Intermittent Fasting
• Experiment 6: 30 Minutes of Daily Loving-Kindness Meditation
• Experiment 7: A Dry January
• Experiment 8: Peak Mental Performance
• Experiment 9: Recording What I Eat
• Experiment 10: The Alexander Technique
• Experiment 11: No Sugar
• Experiment 12: Two Pints of Water Before Breakfast
• Experiment 13: Grass-Fed Butter and Coconut Oil in My Coffee
• Bonus Experiment: Acts of Kindness

Older Writing

• 2014 Travel Gear
• 7 Inspirational Running Videos
• 8 Research-Backed Ways to Learn Faster
• Changing Minds
• Coming Last in the Colombo Marathon, Sri Lanka
• Fear List
• Lacking Motivation? Use the Theory of Inertia
• Life List
• MicroFinance
• Pushing Through the (Imaginary) Wall
• The Brain Chemistry of Communication
• The cheapest (and best) city in the world to live
• The Dashboard of My Life – 2016

Book Summaries

• 3D Negotiation
• A More Beautiful Question
• Age of Propaganda
• Ask More
• Ask Powerful Questions
• Breakthrough Advertising
• Confessions of an Advertising Man
• Contagious
• Difficult Conversations
• Exactly What to Say
• Getting to Yes
• Gravitas
• How to Speak How to Listen
• How to Talk to Anyone
• How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• How to Write Better Copy
• Influence
• Influencing Human Behavior
• Into the Woods
• Just Listen
• Made to Stick
• Messengers
• Methods of Persuasion
• Negotiation Genius
• Never Split the Difference
• Non Violent Communication
• Ogilvy on Advertising
• On Writing Well
• Persuasive Copywriting
• Power
• Pre-suasion
• Principles: Life and Work
• Read Me
• Scientific Advertising
• Small Talk
• Start with No
• Story 10x
• Storyworthy
• Super Thinking
• Superhuman Social Skills
• Talk to Me
• Thank You for Arguing
• The 48 Laws of Power
• The Art of Manipulation
• The Book of Beautiful Questions
• The Boron Letters
• The Catalyst
• The Coaching Habit
• The Copy Book
• The Elements of Eloquence
• The Forbidden Keys to Persuasion
• The Hidden Persuaders
• The Lessons Of History
• The One Sentence Persuasion Course
• The Process of Persuasion
• The Robert Collier Letter Book
• The Science of StoryTelling
• The Storytelling Book
• The Theory That Would Not Die
• Triggers
• Win Bigly
• Yes!
• You Are the Message