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⚔️ Consider the Opposite

⚔️ Consider the Opposite

  • Inversion can be particularly useful for challenging your own beliefs.
  • It forces you to treat your decisions like a court of law.
  • In court, the jury has to listen to both sides of the argument before making up their mind. Inversion helps you do something similar.
  • What if the evidence disconfirmed what you believe? What if you tried to destroy the views that you cherish?
  • In conclusion. It is a way to counteract the gravitational pull of confirmation bias.

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Inversion is counterintuitive. It is not obvious to spend time thinking about the opposite of what you want. And yet inversion is a key tool of many great thinkers. Stoic practitioners visualize negative outcomes. Groundbreaking artists invert the status quo. Effective leaders avoid the mistakes that prevent success just as much as they chase the skills that accelerate it.

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