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How to make rational decisions
The role of biases in decision-making
The impact of social norms on decision-making
The Question Is More Important Than The Answer
The best answers in the world have no value whatsoever if they belong to the wrong questions.
All of us have goals and desires, and to move towards them we look for answers. We fail to realize that the answers are not as important as the questions we can ask.
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Searching For Better Questions
- Finding the right questions is not easy because we don’t know what we don’t know.
- Goals don’t come with blueprints and even if they do, there is always a fitment issue as each life is unique.
- We need to create a personal blueprint to map our life and work, moving us towar...
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Simplification Instead Of Addition
Many of our activities are unnecessary but we don’t know it. If instead of asking ourselves what is to be done, we change the question to what is that we can simplify, or subtract from our work.
This puts the focus on the essential activities while eliminating the ones whi...
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The Focusing Question
The focusing question which is essentially a combination of the most important questions, goes like this: What is the one thing that I can do, so that by doing it, everything will be either easier or unnecessary?
This question looks at the smallest thing that will impact the bigge...
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Life Is Both Easy And Hard
Normally we think we are productive and working hard, but in reality, we may be just confused, busy doing urgent things on our to-do list that may not be important or impactful for our main goal.
The focusing question removes the clutter and makes us focus on the one thing that is...
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Our stories are important
Our stories shape the way we make sense of the world. It allows us to find answers to questions like: Who am I? What is right and wrong? What am I required to do?
Our stories allow us to edit en restructure the good and the bad that is bound to ha...
Energy Is More Important Than Time
- Most of us spend our whole day working, leaving us with less energy for other important areas of life.
- In the Six Spokes Theory, the work spoke is just as important as your love spoke or your play spoke, and everything matters.
- One has to spend the
The Incompatibility Of Happiness And Desire
Life rarely goes according to plan and desired things often fail to deliver the satisfaction we expect of them. Freedom isn’t found by filling up on your desires, by removing your desires, especially desires of grandeur.
So approach the world with a grateful attitude. It i...
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