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What Happened to Setting Your Own Rules?
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Playing by your rules
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Setting your own rules
Gaining control of your own world is a liberating thing, but giving it up elsewhere feels risky and uncomfortable. If you want others to give up their stake in how you run yours, then you have to give up your stake in how they run theirs.
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Don’t think you’re too special
You’re unique but in the kind of way that everyone else is. When you discover you know a thing or two about something important to you, do what you can to help others take advantage of your knowledge, but don’t set the rules for how they have to use it.
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Why We Make Poor Decisions
- We’re not as rational as we think.
- We’re not prepared. We don’t understand the invariant ideas — the mental models — of how the world really works.
- We don’t gather the information we need. We make decisions based on our “guts” in complex domains that require serious work to gather all the needed data.
The World Is Multidisciplinary
We live in a society that demands specialization. Being the best means being an expert in something. A byproduct of this niche focus is that it narrows the ways we think we can apply our knowledge without being called a fraud.
We should apply all the knowledge at our disposal to the problems and challenges we face every day.
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A personal Philosophy
We all need personal philosophy in life or we risk wandering and responding to random stimuli and information with little or no impact on our long-term goals.
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Life is a competition
We are all in competition, even if we prefer to discount it. Our achievements are only evident relative to others. You swam further, dance better, or got more Facebook Likes.
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You’re judged by your actions
We are judged by what we can do for others. For instance, saving children or removing a tumor. Social reward is just a network effect. Reward comes down mostly to the number of people you impact.
However, we judge ourselves differently. We judge ourselves by our thoughts. “I’m a good person”. “I’m better than this.”
Fairness is self-interest
We think the judgements of our bosses and parents and politicians are unfair and silly because they don't agree with us. And we believe they should agree with us.
However, most of them are just trying to do their best, under different circumstances to your own.