Learn more about problemsolving with this collection
How to beat procrastination
How to enhance your creative thinking
How to create a smooth transition in a new endeavor
Alternative
Alternatively, think about the decision in different timelines. Ask yourself: what will be the consequences of this decision in:
1. 5 minutes
2. 5 hours
3. 5 days
4. 5 months
5. 5 years
This means you get a chance to consider the short-term, medium-term, and long-term consequences.
48
276 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
How To Use It
You can use second-order thinking in two ways:
1. As a purely mental exercise
2. You can write it down on paper
Consider a decision you have to make.
Look at the most immediate (first-order) effects of making the decision. Then for each effect ask yourself: "And then What?...
48
283 reads
Second-order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a tool that you can use for making decisions that are not just beneficial in the short-term but are also nondestructive over a longer period of time.
What looks like an investment now might turn out to be a liability later. What looked like a good decision earlier i...
39
295 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
An aspiring writer. Loves reading, walking and spending time with my wife.
A mental tool for better decision making.
“
Related collections
Other curated ideas on this topic:
Set Financial Goals
A clear set of goals can keep you motivated and help you plan to reach it faster.
Have different goals for what you want to achieve in the next 3-months, 1 year and 5 years. This way you'll have some short and long-term goals to look forward too.
10/10/10 Rule
Before making a decision, considers how you’ll feel about this decision in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.
It’s easy to make short-term decisions that may be beneficial 10 minutes or 10 months from now, but these types of decisions usually don’t benefit us in the long-term. What...
Setting Goals
- Focus on one domain at a time.
- Write down your goals. This makes you more likely to take action.
- Goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time -bound.
- Set a combination of immediate, short term (days to weeks), medium term (weeks to month...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates