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Why "go with your gut" sucks 🤯
- Our gut often or being precise our sub-conscious mind directs always directs us to the more comforting solution
- But these comfortable decisions are often very dangerous for us
- So how to avoid it then?? 😮
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Design your behaviour according to your goal
- Instead, plan your goals and then design behaviours in accordance with those goals
- If some behaviours go against your instincts, deliberately go further than feels intuitive to you to accomplish your goals.
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See the problem with a third-person perspective
- When we go with our gut we often choose our go-to behaviour as the solution to the problems that we are analyzing
- For example, if we are extremely optimistic then we overestimate our skills
- Whereas when we are really pessimistic we tend to stick just to our weaknesses and we ignore all the points that are in our favour
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Conclusion
- So to conclude when you are thinking about some important mission to be taken
- Never go with your gut take your time trying to analyze the pros and cons with a third-person perspective
- And etch out the desired outcome as your first step and then think backwards the fastest and most efficient way of reaching that target
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