Derek Sivers has a brand new ebook: Helpful Not True.
90 pages, about reframing. Full of good thought experiments.
(not in chronological order)
1. From Explorer to Self-Chief
We have now 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 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 lower 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 widespread: They are saying they maintain listening to podcasts, studying books, watching movies, doing programs — taking in an increasing number of data — and nonetheless do not know what to do.”
My internal Explorer reveals up on time each week, once 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 stick with the Self-Chief.
2. No new directions for the pc
(Completely 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 way of to fruition.”
3. Non-public journal to internalize it
“Come again and evaluate your journal typically, so you possibly can 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 advocate Derek Sivers’ ebook “Helpful Not True” from the underside of my coronary heart.
What perspective may very well be helpful for you proper now, whether or not or not it is “true”?
Have a stunning week,
Lukas
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