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40 Ideas That Changed How I Think About Almost Everything
I've spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about how to win games.
The same concepts show up everywhere.
Here are the 40 ideas that have changed my thinking the most.
Full article: luckymaverick.substack.com/p…
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40 Ideas That Changed How I Think About Almost Everything
I've spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about how to win games.
The same concepts show up everywhere.
Here are the 40 ideas that have changed my thinking the most.
Full article: luckymaverick.substack.com/p…
Jonathan Bales retweeted
Writing is the superpower of humankind. It is our truest form of magic.
Writing allows you to conjure up something of value where nothing previously existed. It costs little for you to write down the lessons of your life and yet those few minutes spent writing can be life-altering for the right reader. As I once saw it put: "there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words."
Furthermore, writing is the foundation of nearly every technology and innovation because we have to record what we know before we can build upon it. And these innovations are passed down from generation to generation, allowing our children to inherit a richer intellectual fortune than what we were born into. The world is richer because we write and nobody is made poorer in the process.
34 Design your life for your worst days.
You're going to have fluctuating energy levels and discipline.
Accept it and utilize your times of high energy to construct systems that reduce the number of consequential decisions your least motivated self needs to make.
40 Know when to stop searching.
Stop searching when the expected value of committing exceeds the value of continuing to explore, which mathematically tends to be after roughly 37% of your options are exhausted.
Then give that opportunity the commitment to work.
That's it.
These ideas have been useful frameworks for me, but they're hardly gospel; I hope and expect what I believe to change over time.
You can read about all 40 ideas in a lot more depth in my Lucky Maverick post:
luckymaverick.substack.com/p…
33 Motivation is a product of your environment.
The key to developing a long-lasting habit is reducing necessary willpower as much as possible.
Beliefs lead to actions, but the inverse is just as true: actions lead to changes in your brain that result in different beliefs.
32 Use emotion as a trigger for logic.
Rather than suppressing your feelings, use particularly strong emotions as signals that additional rational analysis is necessary.
Train yourself to make an emotional response the trigger for a more deliberate analytical process.
31 Learn how your brain tricks you.
We like to think of ourselves as logical, but we all possess inherent blind spots.
It's effectively impossible to never suffer from cognitive biases, but it's possible to become aware of and adjust for the the ways our brains can fool us.
30 Change your mind before reality forces you to.
People are often forced to abandon their illogical beliefs out of necessity.
The cheapest time to abandon an incorrect belief is the moment you acquire sufficient evidence that it's incorrect.
29 Other people experience a different reality.
People can experience the same interaction and walk away with completely different interpretations.
Even if you think their interpretation is "wrong," their experience is their reality. Denying someone that experience is foolish.
28 Accept the worst. Then decide without fear.
It's incredible how much our emotions distort our judgment. We imagine some vague catastrophe, then let it shape our beliefs without confronting it.
Mentally accept the worst possibility to become free in your actions.
27 Good negotiators don't meet in the middle.
The most valuable thing you can obtain in a negotiation often wasn't even part of the original discussion.
This is why it's important to understand incentives. You're trying to determine what others value differently from you.
26 Your greatest edge is at the intersection.
The value of the combination of your most unique skills can be multiplicative instead of additive.
One way to identify what to pursue is to consider what you can do easily that others find miserable.
Then combine those skills.
25 Would you rather be rich or be king?
People are either money-seeking or power/status-seeking, in one form or another.
Being rich and being a king are two very different games, and it's worth deciding which one you actually want to win.
