Derek Sivers has a brand new e book: Helpful Not True.
90 pages, about reframing. Full of good thought experiments.
(not in chronological order)
1. From Explorer to Self-Chief
We’ve got two roles in our lives:
- Position #1: The Explorer – He tries out various things and continuously consumes new info.
- Position #2: The Self-Chief – He decides 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, keep in mind:
“Individuals who inform me they’re misplaced and operating in circles have one factor in widespread: They are saying they preserve listening to podcasts, studying books, watching movies, doing programs — taking in an increasing number of info — and nonetheless don’t 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’s 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.
The Self-Chief takes over management.
2. No new directions for the pc
(Totally different instance, similar idea)
ChatGPT is producing a solution. Earlier than it’s completed, you feed it new info. What occurs?
It stops and should rethink the reply based mostly on the brand new info.
“Run this system. Cease interrupting your self with new info. Let your self execute one plan of motion, and see it by way of to fruition.”
3. Non-public journal to internalize it
“Come again and evaluation your journal typically, so you may remind your self of your determination, 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 convenient 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’s “true”?
Have a stunning week,
Lukas
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