The Overloaded Mind: When Nobody Hears Your Best Idea
This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.
Show notes
A brilliant engineer pitched a groundbreaking solution across sixty dense slides — and watched a room of investors stop listening. This episode unpacks John Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory, the hard limits of working memory, and why being misunderstood is its own kind of silencing. From Chapter 4 of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code, you'll get the C.L.A.R.I.T.Y. framework and one usable move to try this week.
This episode draws on Chapter 4 of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code: “The Overloaded Mind – Mastering Cognitive Load and Choice Architecture for Clear Influence”.
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This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.
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