Problems aren’t personal.They are systemic.<ul><li>Your mind is a system containing systems.</li><li>Your body is a system containing systems.</li><li>The universe is a system containing systems.</li><li>Purpose is the divine force by which you conduct your life.</li><li>Purpose is the intrinsic energy that makes positive choices seamless.</li><li>Purpose is the compass that guides you inward — unmoved by external circumstances.</li></ul>

Finding Purpose By Solving Your Own Problems

By solving systemic problems, allowing nature to flow as it was meant to.Bring these questions to the top of your mind:What is the big problem you want to solve in the world?What is the big problem you want to solve in your life?With experience, you will realize that the answer to these questions is one and the same.At this very moment, what is it? What is your inward pull?

Finding Purpose

Chances are that the inward pull — where you will find your purpose — is painted over with layers of societal opinions, beliefs, and other projections that have been hard wired in your brain over years of unconscious living.<ul><li>That inward pull, for those that may not understand, can go by many names.</li><li>Some call it your higher voice. Some call it your calling. Some call it the universe.</li><li>For now, we will call in The Pull.</li></ul>

The Inward Pull

You increase the strength of The Pull by peeling back the layers that are suppressing it.That means working from external to internal.From superficial to profound.Surface level to the core.Tip of the iceberg to the bottom of the ocean.Don’t let the depths scare you off, there’s a reason it isn’t crowded.What problems are begging to be solved in your life right now?Do you have self-esteem issues? Hit the gym.Do you have money problems? Get a better job or start a low-risk business.By working your way up Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs, you reveal the way inward toward your deepest purpose.

The Layers That Suppress Us

It is the most foundational human drive that modern distractions have hijacked.You have the Library Of Alexandria staring you straight in the face.It will take some digging, of course. You will not find all of the answers after a few days of research.Your problems will get better.You will see the futility in surface level external pursuits.You will have a (good) desire to explore the depths of your being.You will adopt and shed macro and micro purposes for a lifetime until you uncover your life’s purpose.

Learning Power

Adopt a writing habit.Why?The foundation of media is an impactful message.An impactful message starts with an idea.If that idea is not fleshed out for the sake of understanding through the written word; it will remain just that, an idea. Thrown in the trash with the millions of other “million dollar ideas” that have been piling up throughout your life.By not writing, you are preventing yourself from discovering new mental pathways to go down.One written word can change the direction of your life.

The Vessel For Purpose, Growth, and Impact: Writing

Writing is how you execute ideas as fast as possible so they don’t get lost in the depths of your mind.The greatest skill one can develop is decreasing the time between idea and execution.If you want to take part in any form of online business, media is your foundation.<ul><li>Educational content</li><li>Newsletters and articles</li><li>YouTube video scripts</li><li>Sales and product pages</li><li>Social media</li></ul>The list goes on. Media is the front end of the internet and if you don’t plan to learn to code… better get started writing.Creative, persuasive, and individual media houses (personal brands) cannot be phased out.

The Power Of Writing

Big corporations can be automated, but society is losing trust in them.We are transitioning into an age of authenticity.People are losing trust in:<ul><li>– The media</li><li>– Big corporations</li><li>– Flashy sales gimmicks</li></ul>People are gaining trust in:<ul><li>– Independent sources</li><li>– Value-driven communities</li><li>– Clarity and human connection</li></ul> Only the curious will survive.

Losing Trust In Big Media Corps

Authenticity stems from living through the energy generated from your purpose.Finding purpose stems from solving your own problems.Writing is the vessel for pursuing your curiosity, understanding yourself, and creating solutions for your problems.Media is how you document the process, teach others what you learned, and get paid for doing so.

The Future Belongs To The Authentic

<ul><li>Full control over who you work with, what you work on, and when you work.</li><li>The ability to live by the laws of nature, work 2-4 hours a day, and dedicate time to other important areas of your life (like rest!)</li><li>Getting paid for doing what you love, even when people say it is impossible.</li><li>Self-reliance, sovereignty, and personal freedom that comes with a lack of money problems.</li><li>Most if not all of this is impossible through employment.</li><li>Employment is still a great option for increasing your income.</li><li>At the same time, employment comes with a cap and distorts others’ perceptions of money.</li></ul>

The Experience Model For The "One Person Business"

Once you are locked into what was sold to you as “the good life” 40-80 hour work weeksA finite and predictable salary45 years of work before you rest It becomes 10x more difficult to get out.Build while you still have little to no responsibility.

That’s what business is… problem solving. That’s all it is. Money is the result of value exchange. Offer to solve someone’s problems for money in the areas you know best.The limits that come along with employment cease to exist when you start taking the internet seriously.Most of us “online business folk” refrain from talking about making a lot of money because that’s what most people’s lives revolve around.

Business Is Just Problem Solving

More people need to talk about money. Normalize it. Condition people into believing that they can earn as much as they want doing what they want. As cheesy as it sounds, self-belief is the first step in almost anything.A thought comes before action.

Believe You Can Earn More

<ul><li>Forget about finding a niche. </li><li>Choose 2-3 curiosities to pursue that have the potential to solve your own problems.</li><li>Immerse yourself in an informational and social environment conducive to solving those problems.</li><li>Read books, follow people online, and eliminate everything else that has the potential to distract you.</li><li>Treat your Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn account as a place for sharing your discoveries.</li></ul>That is your niche. YOU are your niche. YOU, at this very moment, are interested in a select few things that intersect. That intersection is where your audience is built.

The Experience Model

People are interested in more than one thing.Those that are interested in health can also express interest in spirituality or learning to code. That’s where the fun comes in — it’s on you to craft a persuasive argument for the interests that will help others solve their problems.As you evolve, your content and brand will evolve.That means you will move on from what you are currently talking about and selling.You will desaturate the market beneath you.The creator economy is impossible to saturate, otherwise, it’s not the creator economy (one-person businesses).

The Connections Between Things

Human connection cannot scale.If you want to build a billion-dollar company, then yes stick to one thing, but that’s not what I want… and I would argue 99% of people don’t actually want that.Give me $1M a year and complete personal freedom. I’ll be good.At the moment, the creator economy + one-person business model seems to sustainably provide this.How do you evolve? By solving your own problems.All of this is so simple. It just takes people a bit of time trying to find the complex answer before they realize it.

The Money And The Freedom

<ul><li> the best thing you can do is build leverage by writing online.</li><li>Get out of the B2B space if you are dead set on living a life of self-reliance, fulfilment, and meaning.</li><li>Join the C2C (creator to creator) space that is continuing to grow, almost exponentially.</li><li>Flow with the current that few can see without being in the space.</li><li>Flow with the shift from societal constructs and big business to individual education systems (social media and authentic products) and one-person businesses with media (writing) as the backbone of your success.</li></ul>

The Freelancer

Like a crappy job posting that you feel unqualified for:You need experience to start, but you gain experience by starting.Most of what you are told you can’t do is an illusion. You take it as law and impose limits on yourself.Use Twitter:<ul><li>Post your thoughts, ideas, beliefs, likes, and dislikes</li><li>Speak to yourself. Give your current self the advice it needs to here and your past self advice it wish it had heard.</li><li>Study your curiosities and share what you learn</li><li>Actively improve your life and share the lessons and insights you came across</li></ul>

The Experience Paradox

You will have many mental battles. Write your way through them.You will have many personal battles. Write your way through them.But what else would you expect?A comfy, limited, job handing you a paycheck every 2 weeks in exchange for 80% of your waking hours?No thanks. Sounds even more difficult than the former.Your survival-wired psyche will thank you with good dopamine by pursuing your vision, goals, and hunting for its survival on a daily basis.

A Difficult Journey

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The philosopher Carl G. Hempel, in his 1965 essay “Studies in the Logic of Confirmation,” brought to light a central paradox in the scientific method as it is commonly understood. This is called Hempel’s Ravens Paradox, and it deals with inductive reasoning, which is the first step in any scientific method: Observing and forming a hypothesis.

Hempel’s Ravens Paradox

Suppose you see a raven, and you note that it is black. “Hmm,” you say, “that raven was black.” Sometime later you notice a couple more ravens, and they also are black. “What a coincidence,” you remark, “those ravens are black too.” Time goes by and you see many more ravens. And it happens that all the ravens you see are black. “This is beyond coincidence,” you might reasonably think, and with the instincts of a good and observant scientist you form a hypothesis: All ravens are black.

Inductive Reasoning

There are always limits to an experimental apparatus, even if the apparatus is just a matter of observing as many ravens as possible to check their colour. Nonetheless, we feel justified in saying that each new observation of a black raven tends to confirm the hypothesis, and in time, if no green or blue or otherwise non-black ravens are observed, our hypothesis will eventually come to have the status of natural law.

The Limitation

Logically put, our hypothesis “all ravens are black” has the form of a conditional, that is, a statement of the form “if A then B.” In short, we are saying that if a given object is a raven, then that object is black. According to the laws of logic, a conditional is equivalent to its contrapositive. That is, a statement of the form “if A then B” is equivalent to the statement “if not B then not A.” This rule of logic is incontrovertible.

The Flaw In Our Logic

Our hypothesis “all ravens are black” therefore has the equivalent form “all non-black things are non-ravens,” or more precisely, “if an object isn't black then it is not a raven.” Consequently, if every sighting of a black raven confirms our hypothesis, then every sighting of a non-black non-raven equally confirms our hypothesis.

The Illogical Conclusion

Very well, you might say, but maybe every sighting of a non-black non-raven really does confirm, even if only to an infinitesimal degree, the hypothesis that all ravens are black. After all, if we could, somehow, check every non-black object in the universe, and if none of them were ravens, our statement that all ravens are black would be proved.

The Bottom Line

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You can’t build software without encountering incidents – from critical bugs to full-blown outages, dealing with incidents are an inevitable part of the process.As a result, you’ll find no shortage of articles telling you how to write a review – or as they’re commonly known, a post mortem – of your incident. These top tips are widely practised:<ul><li>Avoid blame</li><li>Focus on the details</li><li>Ask why multiple times</li></ul>

Get More From Incident Reviews

<ul><li>Do we know what happened?</li><li>Do we feel confident about how we detected this incident?</li><li>Was it easy and straightforward to mitigate, rather than difficult and slow?</li><li>Do we understand the takeaways, aka the lessons learned?</li><li>Do we feel confident that we can prevent this from reoccurring?</li></ul> the five-question format made presenters feel like they were on trial. They were in the hot seat, at the mercy of anyone with a question. This made the review a high-pressure, isolating experience for the engineer presenting. It’s hard to learn when you, or others around you, don’t feel safe.

The Old Way: Asking Five Key Questions

Another problem with the format was that it didn’t create natural openings in conversation for other engineers to jump in. By focusing on a single event with set questions, we often overlooked commonalities and trends across incidents. This made it difficult for other engineers to understand what they could take away from these meetings and how the lessons might apply to themselves and their team.

Unclear Takeaways

We decided to start experimenting.<ul><li>We looked at the main improvements we wanted to see:</li><li>We wanted everyone to feel truly safe</li><li>We wanted to open up the conversation, encouraging open dialogue and collective learning</li><li>We wanted to observe patterns and move beyond isolated incidents to observe recurring trends</li><li>We wanted our weekly meeting to feel valuable, to be a weekly highlight for engineers</li></ul>

The New Way: Updating The Incident Meeting Format

Facilitation is a learned and practised skill – hard to perfect but hugely rewarding when done right.The three desired outcomes as goals are:<ul><li>Time flies</li><li>Everyone stays engaged</li><li>Everyone grows, even the facilitator</li></ul>

Flex Your Facilitation Muscles

We set a goal to generate at least four strong talking points: two based on the particular incident under review and two that addressed common themes. At the start of every meeting we would launch a poll with each of our talking points and ask participants to vote for the topic they’d most like to discuss. We’d start with the topic that topped the poll and go from there.

Getting The Talking Points

The question and answer format was not working, that was clear. So how could we guide constructive conversations that brought about real learning? It has always been team practice to assess submitted reports before each review, to make sure they meet our standards for a good report. We decided to capitalize on this process and use this review as an opportunity to extract common themes across multiple incidents.

Extracting Common Themes

To make sure these techniques were working we started sending automated surveys to our incident review Slack channel after each review. The poll asked participants to anonymously agree or disagree with the following statements:<ul><li>This meeting was a good use of my time</li><li>I think we discussed the right things</li><li>This meeting felt safe and constructive</li><li>I learned something new in this meeting</li></ul>

Post Meeting Survey

The progress we’ve seen to date has been really promising. We still have our outstanding problems, like how to tie these learnings into actionable items on our roadmap, or how to keep attendance strong in particularly busy weeks. But the aim of our program is to build an honest, accountable, and constructive culture within teams that care about our customer experience. The way your organization processes failure is a mechanism of change – if that mechanism is broken, boring, or painful, then your organization can’t reach its full potential.

Building an Honest, Accountable and Constructive Culture

You can’t build software without encountering incidents. We changed up our incident review, or post mortem, process to learn more every time.

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How your engineering team can get more from incident reviews

Larger companies can be difficult to compete against because they seem to have all the advantages. Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of the larger competitor can help you to use them strategically to build your business profitably.

Smaller companies can capitalise on their strengths

<ol><li>They have more resources: multiple locations, more people, more cash. </li><li>Bigger network: They have more suppliers, more customers, more shareholders, and a better-developed network.</li><li>Purchasing economy: They can benefit from the best discounts on big volumes.</li><li>Location advantages: Larger companies can have multiple locations and distribution centres.</li><li>Depth of skill: They can support specific skills smaller companies can't afford.</li></ol>

Common advantages of larger competitors

<ol><li>More agile: A smaller company can change direction faster.</li><li>Less need for volume to absorb overhead.</li><li>Closer to the customer. A larger size often separates the customer from the business. Larger competitors may have layers of management between the decision-makers and the customer.</li><li>More focused. Larger companies need a higher gross revenue and more customers to sustain the business.</li></ol>

Advantages of a smaller company

<ul><li>Speciality strategy. A smaller company can be the best in quality, service, innovation etc.</li><li>Segment focus. Building a business around a subset of the market may limit your size but is more likely to lead to a strong market share. Larger companies have to serve multiple segments to reach their volume targets.</li><li>Moving faster. Smaller companies can chase changes in the market.</li><li>Customer intimacy. Smaller companies are often closer to their customers and can understand their customers better than larger competitors.</li></ul>

How to compete with a larger company

Competing with a larger company is hard. Here are the advantages of being smaller and four key strategies that will help you win.

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Cloud computing is on-demand access, via the internet, to computing resources—applications, servers (physical servers and virtual servers), data storage, development tools, networking capabilities, and more—hosted at a remote <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/data-centers">data center</a> managed by a cloud services provider (or CSP). The CSP makes these resources available for a monthly subscription fee or bills them according to usage.Cloud computing has the following benefits:<ol><li>Lower IT costs</li><li>Improved agility and Time-To-Value</li><li>Better scaling.</li></ol>

Cloud Computing

The term ‘cloud computing’ also refers to the technology that makes the cloud work. This includes some form of virtualized IT infrastructure—servers, operating system software, networking, and other infrastructure that’s abstracted, using special software, so that it can be pooled and divided irrespective of physical hardware boundaries.

Virtualization Of IT Infrastructure

IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) are the three most common models of cloud services.<ul><li>IaaS provides on-demand access to fundamental computing resources–physical and virtual servers, networking, and storage—over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis.</li><li>PaaS provides software developers with an on-demand platform—hardware, complete software stack, infrastructure, and development tools.</li><li>SaaS—also known as cloud-based software or cloud applications—is application software that’s hosted in the cloud accessible via a web browser or app.</li></ul>

Cloud computing services

Serverless computing (also called simply serverless) is a cloud computing model that offloads all the backend infrastructure management tasks–provisioning, scaling, scheduling, patching—to the cloud provider, freeing developers to focus all their time and effort on the code and business logic specific to their applications.A subset of serverless. FaaS allows developers to execute portions of application code (called functions) in response to specific events.

Serverless computing 

Public cloud is a type of cloud computing in which a cloud service provider makes computing resources—anything from SaaS applications, to individual <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/virtual-machines">virtual machines (VMs)</a>, to <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/bare-metal-and-dedicated-servers">bare metal computing hardware</a>, to complete enterprise-grade infrastructures and development platforms—available to users over the public internet.

Types Of Cloud Computing: Public Cloud

A private cloud is a cloud environment in which all cloud infrastructure and computing resources are dedicated to, and accessible by, one customer only. Private cloud combines many of the benefits of cloud computing—including elasticity, scalability, and ease of service delivery—with the access control, security, and resource customization of on-premises infrastructure.

A hybrid cloud is just what it sounds like—a combination of public and private cloud environments. Specifically, and ideally, a hybrid cloud connects an organization's private cloud services and public clouds into a single, flexible infrastructure for running the organization’s applications and workloads.

Types Of Cloud Computing: Hybrid cloud

Multicloud is the use of two or more clouds from two or more different cloud providers. Having a multicloud environment can be as simple as using email SaaS from one vendor and image editing SaaS from another. Hybrid multicloud is the use of two or more public clouds together with a private cloud environment. Organizations choose multicloud to avoid vendor lock-in, to have more services to choose from and to access to more innovation.

Types Of Cloud Computing: Multicloud and hybrid multicloud

Traditionally, security concerns have been the primary obstacle for organizations considering cloud services, particularly public cloud services. In response to demand, however, the security offered by cloud service providers is steadily outstripping on-premises security solutions.Some cloud security best practices include:<ul><li>Shared responsibility for security</li><li>Data encryption</li><li>User identity and access management</li><li>Collaborative management</li><li>Security and compliance monitoring</li></ul>

Cloud Security

With 25% of organizations planning to move all their applications to the cloud within the next year, it would seem that cloud computing use cases are limitless. <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/disaster-recovery-introduction">Disaster recovery</a> and business continuity:The cloud provides cost-effective redundancy to protect data against system failures and the physical distance required to recover data and applications in the event of a local outage or disaster. All of the major public cloud providers offer Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

Cloud Use Cases

Explore cloud computing and discover what it can bring to your enterprise.

What is Cloud Computing?

<ul>
<li>The traits that make us successful in our careers aren’t optimized for happiness.</li>
<li>Sacrificing the present for a better tomorrow, toiling hard with a single-minded focus isn’t exactly fun. Let’s face it, success and happiness are two different things.</li>
<li>Happiness is something that is only felt in the present moment, and meditation is a way to reach that mindset permanently.</li>
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Success is just one of the outcomes of the process of pursuing one’s goal.

Success And Happiness

If we are looking forward to a particular day when we will achieve our goal(s) and finally be happy, we are focused on the future.A better way is to set goals and work towards improving our lives, but also focus on today, on the now, the present moment, and try to live life.

The Default State Of Mind

We generally are in an unhealthy, unhappy state of mind due to overthinking, health issues, toxic relationships or job-related problems. Then we keep wondering where to find this elusive feeling of being happy.Before we focus on success, we need to take care of our present pain points: negative friends, bad relationships or stuff that causes stress and anxiety if we want to be happy in the now.

The Way We Are Now

What are some traits that make you successful at work? Those things will often not make you happy. That's why we need a different approach.

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What Makes You Successful Won’t Make You Happy - Darius Foroux

You ought to read a ton of books, and only implement a fraction of the ideas, depending on what you have time for.<ul><li>Reading books is quite cheap. Kindle editions of popular books cost less than a nice meal. Libraries and borrowing books means you often don’t even need to pay that. Even the time spent reading a book is a fairly low investment. </li><li>Implementing ideas, in contrast, is often quite expensive. Implementing just one idea from a book can take more time, money, or effort than reading the book itself. Implementing all the ideas from a single book might take years.</li></ul>

Reading More Advice than You Actually Use

A book you never explicitly try to implement can still add value. Perhaps not life-changing, but is has enough value to justify the relatively low cost invested in them.Most books won’t change your life. But then again, you don’t need a life-changing amount of money and time to consume them. If you pick good books, read them well, and think deeply about their implications, that’s enough to earn back their price tag (both in terms of money and hours spent).

Why Unused Books Still Have Value


It’s often the things you don’t do after reading a book that justify the investment cost. If a book steers you away from bad strategies which won’t work, that alone can make it worth reading.Read enough books about investing and you learn enough to steer away from some clearly bad habits on investing.

Good Books Limit Bad Choices

Read a good book, and you’ll start thinking about things in a different way.Sometimes that different pattern of thinking will result in some deliberate plans of action. Other times, they will merely adjust your thinking down a new direction you might not have considered before.

Books Change The Conversation In Your Head

You should be reading way more books than you have time to apply. Reading a book is cheap, implementing ideas is hard, reading too little creates waste.

Most Books Won't Change Your Life (But You Should Read Them Anyways) | Scott H Young

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<li>FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is a collection of feelings and emotions that influence our thinking.</li>
<li>It was coined by Gene Amdahl, who worked at IBM and later founded his own company.</li>
<li>Business, media, politics and even some religions use FUD intentionally, as they understand its power and how vulnerable people are to it.</li>
<li>Marketers and salespeople often exploit these behaviour patterns in people and manipulate them by planting doubts and uncertainties about a competing product or service in their minds.</li>
</ul>

FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

Various tech companies use fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to control customer behaviour. They plant fake news, confusing press releases and benchmark tests to influence the decisions of prospective customers. 
Example: Announcing ‘vaporware’ products, something that isn’t even in existence, just to harm the sales of the existing products of competitors.

FUD Usage In Tech Companies

Customers are often pushed towards a particular product due to marketers amplifying the FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) state.
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<li>They claim the product is backwards compatible, or is fully compatible with a variety of hardware, implying that the competitor's product isn’t.</li>
<li>They claim that their product requires minimal training of employees.</li>
<li>They try to sell the worth of the product by claiming that millions of customers use it.</li>
<li>They try to hasten the decision by giving limited time discount offers.</li>
<li>They play the ‘limited stocks’ game or suggest how others have benefited from the same.</li>
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Amplifying The FUD

Instilling fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of people isn’t new. Governments and political groups have been fearmongering for centuries.
Most mainstream media carries a certain narrative or agenda in their news reporting, promoting the feelings of FUD in readers in order to coax them into buying the publication, clicking the article link, or simply believing the propaganda.

FUD: Propaganda Tool

Spread intentionally and unintentionally, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) techniques are quite common. Some of the most utilized techniques to create or amplify FUD among people are:
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<li>Making negative statements about a rival.</li>
<li>Pushing the narrative on possible negative results, while exaggerating the impact or likelihood of the same.</li>
<li>Amplifying people's existing negative emotions.</li>
<li>Confusing them through lots of information.</li>
<li>Questioning their beliefs.</li>
<li>Attacking their source of information.</li>
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How FUD Is Created And Used

FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) techniques use various belief patterns and cognitive biases already present in people.
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<li>Authority Bias: People are already conditioned to believe authority figures.</li>
<li>Bandwagon Effect: People often do what others are doing.</li>
<li>Slippery Slope Argument: Suggesting that a certain action can set off extreme results, pushing us towards the wrong path.</li>
<li>Appeal To Emotions: Most manipulators appeal to our fears, exploiting our emotions for their gain.</li>
<li>Reverse Psychology: Indirectly coaxing people to do the opposite.</li>
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Common Biases And Belief Patterns

“Uncertainty always creates doubt and doubt creates fear.”

We first need to identify the various fears, uncertainties and doubts (FUD) we have in ourselves, trying to resolve them when we know what they are and from where they are coming from.
One can deploy the principle of cui bono, asking yourself ‘who benefits?’ from this FUD being created in you. Likewise, various cognitive biases can be dissected.
Keep in mind that people often believe what they hear, and only object towards something wrong if they have full knowledge of the same and can therefore identify the error.

How To Deal With FUD

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<li>Be clear and objective about your product or service and what the features are.</li>
<li>Answer common questions through a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).</li>
<li>Offer demos so that customers can themselves make up their minds about your service or product.</li>
<li>Having customer testimonials and a good website also helps in reducing FUD, also known as the halo effect.</li>
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Reducing FUD In Other People

Understand yourself and those around you.

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It is often unhelpful to hear that the perfect routine is the one you can stick to to help you reach your goals. As everyone is different in personality, constraints, and preferences, the ideal method will differ.
Instead of outlining an exact routine, look at the essential parts of a routine, and season them as you desire.

The best routine for studying

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<li>Instructions can be in the form of lessons, books, or tutoring. They are useful to avoid wasting time with trial-and-error.</li>
<li>Retrieval involves deliberately remembering the knowledge, not just passively reviewing it.</li>
<li>Spacing is repeated reviews, spread out over time. It forms part of a regular routine where you cover old knowledge along with new.</li>
<li>Understanding. The goal of learning is for ideas to make sense. Explain the concept to yourself. When you get stuck, find a textbook or teacher to help you.</li>
<li>Feedback. You don't have to get feedback from other people. When you can get accurate feedback that doesn't need another person, go there first.</li>
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The ingredient of the perfect studying routine

To perfect your studying routine, look at your current routine, and see what's missing. For example:
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<li>An amateur painter will grow faster if they add instruction to their existing knowledge.</li>
<li>Learning history by reading a lot: Why not write an essay or converse with other history buffs?</li>
<li>You work correctly through a course, but don't space your learning: A ten-minute pop-quiz on previous topics can help you remember and save hours later.</li>
</ul>

Fixing your current studying routine

The perfect studying routine has five ingredients: instruction, retrieval, spacing, understanding and feedback. Which one might you be missing?

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The Perfect Studying Routine | Scott H Young

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<li>Start small: Get comfortable to let go of the need to be perfect from the beginning.</li>
<li>Try an outside perspective: We're usually hard on ourselves, but not nearly as harsh with other people.</li>
<li>Make a commitment to work on a project for a set period of time: Once the time is up, you're done, whether the project is perfect or not.</li>
<li>Put all your perfectionistic tendencies towards areas that are truly important to you.</li>
</ol>

Let go of the need to be perfect

“Perfect” and “productive” aren’t the same thing; perfectionism is actually counterproductive.
Just because society is placing a higher value on perfection doesn’t mean you’re actually getting more done.

“Done” is always better than “Perfect”

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<li>Self-oriented: when people are highly critical of themselves.</li>
<li>Other-oriented: when people are highly critical of others.</li>
<li>Socially-prescribed: when people think others expect them to be perfect and then pressure themselves to be perfect in order to meet those expectations.</li>
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3 types of perfectionism

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<li>Competitive work environments: If you work in a culture that demands perfection, you’ll probably start demanding perfection.</li>
<li>Pride and personality: Some persons have personalities that are naturally susceptible to perfectionism.</li>
<li>Fear of failure: People identify with their failure. They will strive for perfection as self-preservation.</li>
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What causes perfectionism

People who are concerned about perfection often have a hard time getting started.
They’re stressed about doing things perfectly, they feel paralyzed to get started, and their work suffers. This can also stop them from trying new things, taking risks, and can suppress their ability to innovate.

Perfectionism and procrastination

We live in an era of overachievement, and in this era flaunting those achievements (we're looking at you, social media) is totally the norm. Because pretty much everyone's achievements are on full display at all times, it can be easy to get caught up in the idea that "perfect is the new black," and if you want to be successful in today's hyper-competitive culture, you need to be perfect, too.

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