Derek Sivers has a brand new e-book: Helpful Not True.
90 pages, about reframing. Full of sensible thought experiments.
(not in chronological order)
1. From Explorer to Self-Chief
We’ve two roles in our lives:
- Function #1: The Explorer – He tries out various things and consistently consumes new data.
- Function #2: The Self-Chief – He comes to a decision and sticks to it.
There’s a level when the Self-Chief should take over. 🧭 → 🧑✈️
“Cease contemplating different viewpoints. Cease altering the course. Choose a vacation spot and reduce off different choices.”
When the Explorer tries to take management once more, bear in mind:
“Individuals who inform me they’re misplaced and working in circles have one factor in frequent: They are saying they preserve listening to podcasts, studying books, watching movies, doing programs — taking in increasingly data — and nonetheless do not know what to do.”
My inside Explorer reveals up on time each week, after I create a brand new module for my 12-week productiveness course.
He is a distraction. What he says is neither helpful nor true.
I say out loud “Self-Chief has management.” and hand over the persist with the Self-Chief.
2. No new directions for the pc
(Totally different instance, identical idea)
ChatGPT is producing a solution. Earlier than it is completed, you feed it new data. What occurs?
It stops and should rethink the reply based mostly on the brand new data.
“Run this system. Cease interrupting your self with new data. Let your self execute one plan of motion, and see it by means of to fruition.”
3. Personal journal to internalize it
“Come again and overview your journal typically, so you’ll be able to remind your self of your resolution, causes, imaginative and prescient, and plan.”
Journal to mitigate challenges. Journal to outsmart your future self.
I used to be impressed, so I booked a cabin within the woods for 3 days.
No cellphone. No distractions.
Simply me. My ideas. And a journal.
What if we switched from asking “Is that this true?”
to “Is this handy for me proper now?”
I can suggest Derek Sivers’ e-book “Helpful Not True” from the underside of my coronary heart.
What perspective could possibly be helpful for you proper now, whether or not or not it is “true”?
Have a beautiful week,
Lukas
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