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Overcoming Bias : Tiptoe Or Dash To Future?
growth vs limiting factors - resources, adverse effects, visionary ideas
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whether you want to move fast or slow through a destructive region depends on the details of the region.
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If we run out of today’s resources before we can reach the next tech level, we risk not being able to grow to reach that level. This factor says go fast.
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Scott H Young » Know Your Burn Rate, and Why Sabotages You Before You Begin
[prevous post: More important than strict consistency, is, controlling the days you show up.
you should build the habit of showing up every day in some form or another. However, once you’ve built that habit, you should experiment with different strategies to find a style that best suits your goals.
I often experiment switch different workout routines, blogging styles and eating habits. The difference between people who control their routine strategically, and people who drop off or give up out of laziness.
I aim to show up almost every day, but what showing up means changes as I rethink my fitness routine.]
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After you complete the first few steps, you need to switch thinking from impulse to sustaining your momentum. Because the first step will get you started, but you need the thousandth to finish.
instead of relying on willpower/motivation, search for strategies [make it a routine, delete temptations, start on one thing] to create a path of least resistance towards overcoming your slacker tendencies. sustenance instead of consistency.
outside incentives choke out the possibility of an intrinsic motivation. When you make health or attractiveness the primary reason for exercising, any intrinsic appeal fitness might have for you takes a back seat. Intrinsic appeal is the best driver, and should be behind the steering wheel.
http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2009/10/12/fitness-is-an-end-unto-itself
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Motivate
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That deadline forces me to work hard. But at the same time, I’m prepared for it to take longer.
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Overcoming Bias: A Tale Of Two Tradeoffs
for real high probable/events near in space or time/trend deviations - think on making a decision for getting things done/how to do using complex details requiring mental strain giving insights.
for abstract/ low probable/distant /trend following/ our identity values, group/others attitude goals now – think on forming an image by making a effortless sparse hypothesis on why to do.
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for real high probable/events near in space or time/trend deviations - think on making a decision for getting things done/how to do using complex details requiring mental strain giving insights.
for abstract/ low probable/distant /trend following/ our identity values, group/others attitude goals now - think on forming an image by making a effortless sparse hypothesis on why to do. - ambioct on 2009-02-22
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The first tradeoff is that social minds must both make good decisions, and present good images to others.
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decision-image tradeoff by context,
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5 Things to do when you're unemployed. Hint: It's not job hunting. » Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
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worked for free for my boyfriend’s company for a couple of hours a day. That way I didn’t actually have a gap in my resume; a resume doesn’t show part-time or full-time and it doesn’t show pay or no pay. So volunteer
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when people asked me why I left my job, I told them about how I gave myself time to fulfill lofty goals as a swing dancer.
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees
1. “I’m deciding between these two jobs, which each offer these benefits and these drawbacks. What do you think? Which factors should I consider most highly – salary, geography, etc?” In other words, present options and then get help on how to think about the options.be specific & clear . show that you atleast tried-do your research-userguide,search web.ask the right person/board of experts.
2. genuine interest in hearing an advisor's ideas and potentially incorporating them into your own life) while also showing potential through your existing ideas and convictions
3. Mentoring relationships are like any friendship.Years of time .don't try to cover every topic on your mind in one meeting.She's bored of doling out the same advice. So spend some time probing her on off-the-beaten path topics. Religion? Politics? Wander on the path less trekked upon.In the long term, you’ll have plenty of time to cover the topic that made you interested.
4. To form a long term relationship you need to stay in touch.Nothing beats an in-person interaction. At the least, email him four times a year.Be persistent. Follow up every few days, try different approaches, change your messaging. My sense is if you only followed up once, you probably didn't care much about the interaction anyway, and if that's the case, why try in the first place?Send a relevant article, or comment on a move his company recently made. Set a Google News Alert on his name. If you write a blog post, you've created no such obligation, and he still will probably read it in his RSS reader.someone may not return your call the first, second, third, or fourth time, but the fifth time you call it happens that they are, in fact, quite interested in your product. be persistent and keep following up until you hear a definitive "no" (and then just follow up less frequently).Try to be creative in your communicatins both in format (try postcards!) and timing (never send an update during the holiday season).cooperative calm -dont mention how desperate you are,dont
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What do you think? Which factors should I consider most highly – salary, geography, etc?”
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present options and then get help on how to think about the options
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Scott H Young » How to Meet Interesting People
i would like to follow this advice, but I'm stuck with people who probe my answers & don't share their's.
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your ambition can cross over into your conversations with other people. So, when you’re meeting somebody new, you are either talking about yourself, or filtering their conversation to see if anything applies to you. Talking, or waiting for your turn to speak.
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Trying to impress other people by your life, ambitions or goals, only shows that you’re secretly insecure about them.
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The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice
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I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you’re the boss of the people who have only one skill. Or get a degree in business on top of your engineering degree, law degree, medical degree, science degree, or whatever. Suddenly you’re in charge, or maybe you’re starting your own company using your combined knowledge.
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Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix
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Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer - HBR.org
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abandoning the idea that you must have complete knowledge before you can act.
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delay this thrust into knowledge, to shelter nescience as long as possible. Even a hypothesis can be the beginning of the end of nescience.
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Scott H Young » Show Up, Every Day
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in the moments of stagnation some people give up, and some people keep showing up day after day. And even though they aren’t making progress in the moment, the latter group are more likely to succeed.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Getting to the Point of "I Can Do This!"
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read tons of first-hand accounts and talk to entrepreneurs to understand step-by-step how they did it.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Teaching Entrepreneurship via Business Plans
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VCs don't care what is in a business plan
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best way to learn about how to start a business is to start a business.
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Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Drastically Reduce Stress with a Work Shutdown Ritual
during workhours collect todos in a spiral or quicknote.
before resigning from work select deadlines & update reminders foxpaw
review foxpaw for next 4days & add notes in quicknote about what got done/learnt/needed.
finally refrain from brooding/ruminatting on the same by saying "done! i slotted them. i wont be thinking of anything except for the one specific one i have to complete now in this moment"
How To Use Fear
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Eventually, Sean realised that his fear of the unknown was holding him back from achieving success in his business, so he booked himself in for a weekend Tax workshop which was specifically designed for new business owners.
By the end of the weekend, Sean finally understood how the Tax system worked and had a list of simple processes that he could use to run his business effectively.
What really surprised Sean was the huge boost in confidence that this new knowledge gave him.
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Today I'd like to encourage you to treat your fear as a signpost to identify the areas of your life in which you need to acquire more knowledge.
When you take action and acquire that knowledge, you'll find that not only will your fear disappear, but you'll also receive a huge boost in self confidence as you move closer towards achieving your goal.
Overcoming Bias: Cached Thoughts
dont let the mind complete the cached thought
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Try to keep your mind from completing the pattern in the standard, unsurprising, already-known way. It may be that there is no better answer than the standard one, but you can't think about the answer until you can stop your brain from filling in the answer automatically.
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next time you hear someone unhesitatingly repeating a meme you think is silly or false, you'll think, "Cached thoughts."
Scott H Young » The Time to Start a Business is in Your Twenties
define your poverty threshold
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Defining a poverty threshold is important because it allows you to make decisions around it. If you don’t know what your minimally acceptable income level is, you won’t make important life decisions.
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Start Something, Even if it’s Part-Time
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Regret Minimalization
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- Project yourself into the future and visualize yourself at the age of 80
- Imagine that you are looking back on your life
- Ask yourself which of the options you are trying to decide between will you be more likely to regret missing out on?
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