Thinking takes a lot of energy. Heuristics help conserve energy and create solutions.
These solutions can be inaccurate so you need to be updating your mental models.
You know more today than you did yesterday, use it.
Tag Archives: Strategy
Forging a Fake
When being right is more important than being correct we promote lies and deceit.
When being correct is more important we promote learning and growth.
Taking the next step can get you miles
Outcomes are important to provide direction but action will get you there.
Where you first aimed for might not be where you end up but the process of moving forward will test and educated.
You don’ t need to end up where you thought you would but you do need to start.
Shooting for more Effective Decisions
Strength is not staying resolute in the face of new information. It is the courage to update your way of thinking.
Seeking out disagreement improves your thought process if you have the resolve to remove your desire to be right to allow new ideas in.
How Making Life Harder, Makes it Easier
Seeking resistance unlocks your potential.
Weights = Stronger Muscles
Routine = Stronger Discipline
Opposing Ideas = Stronger thought process
Seek Resistance
How To Create Smarter Processes
Having people evaluate their own work is like being able to grade your own paper, you are always going to give yourself great scores.
Process evaluation from another person adds rigour to the thinking if the evaluator wants the process to succeed.
Are you updating your decisions?
When seeking feedback, don’t worry if people agree with your outcomes. Have them question your way of thinking.
An outcome could be luck masquerading as skill. Understanding a thought process can help increase your skill.
Paying for the costs of your Decisions
Every choice creates a cost. Eat poorly, you gain weight, to lose weight you have to pay the cost.
When you make a bad business/leadership decision, you have to pay the cost to make it right.
The question is will you?
How To Think More Effectively
Success can mean we are doing things right. It doesn’t mean we are doing everything correctly.
Don’t take success as the end point of learning.
Take it as an opportunity to figure what you think is right, versus what is correct.
Building Credibility by Being Slower
Making a decision quickly doesn’t donate skill.
Taking the time you have to think about a nuanced and considered answer shows wisdom.
A knee jerk reaction doesn’t.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 