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How to focus on the present moment
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Every time you take a step, you make hundreds of assumptions. For example, the floor will not give way, your legs will hold you up, and the surface is not a hole.
But assumptions can also get in the way because what was once helpful may no longer apply.
A profound question is how is it possible to see differently if everything you see is a reflex that is grounded in your assumptions?
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Something only looks creative from the outsider's perspective, not from the creative person's view.
The creative person is just making a logical next step. But from the observers' point of view, the ideas are much further apart.
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Whenever you're in a moment, your brain will only shift you to the next most likely possibility. And the next most likely possibility is determined by the assumptions you make. This is called the space of possibility.
What is possible is based on your history. All a creativ...
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Every behaviour we do is to increase certainty and reduce uncertainty. The stress resulting from uncertainty is immense in our society.
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The world is changing fast. Holding on to the ideas of yesterday can prevent you from achieving success tomorrow.
Be willing to step away from the old assumptions into a place of not knowing. This will leave room to acquire new knowledge to move to a place you truly want to go.
Bezos offers a set of guidelines for how to make decisions at high-velocity:
1- Learning a new skill will get you to a better place, even if you don't see that the skill is helpful.
2- Remember there is no time wasted while learning, if you see that the skill didn't give you an advantage, it gave it to you in an indirect way.
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