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If it isnât, youâll find an excuseâ - Jim Rohn
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Today youâll get: 3 bullet tips, 1 borrowed idea, 2 reads you need⌠and a question for you!
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Another great illustration by @Sathya:
âThe more options and opportunities we have, the less satisfied we become with the choice we makeâ
Bullet tips
Productivity:
âBuild habits that reinforce your desired identityâ - James Clear
Who do you want to be?
Want to be a healthy person⌠Create the healthiest kitchen set up of anyone you know.
Want to be a productive person⌠Be the most organised, efficient person you know.
Want to be money savvy⌠Be the person who spends wisely, saves each month, invests.
Attach the desired identity to your current identity.
Others will begin to see it, and you will begin to believe it!
Wealth:
âA hack to feel terrible all the time:
Tie your happiness to a metric you can't control, and stare at that metric all dayâ - Jack Butcher
Guilty!
I do this with my bank balance (not much to look at!), investments, social media following, subscribersâŚ
and thatâs not to mention open rates, likes, shares etcâŚ
Oh and thereâs tons of metrics in my proper job (In finance. I will break free someday!)
Make a conscious effort to tune down the metrics in your life. Donât tie your happiness to metrics out of your control.
Life:
âYou are the common denominator in your life.
Whatever keeps happening to you is more likely your fault than everyone else'sâ - Chris Williamson
A harsh reality, but a necessary one!
Itâs the phenomenon of âwhy always me?â. There may be a good reason for that.
This swings both ways⌠in a negative and positive sense. We donât tend to see the negative side, instead we blame others.
People who find themselves successful and happy can say the same thing âWhy always me?â
They know why.
They know itâs their positive influence as the common denominator!
A borrowed idea
Jeremy Schmit on mindset shift.
Reads you need
Sources of Stupidity (Farnam Street)
There are a lot of reasons we fail to make effective decisions.
Letâs take a look at five of the biggest ones:
1. Weâre unintentionally stupid. I like to think that Iâm rational and capable of interpreting all information in a non-biased way but thatâs a dream.
Whether weâre tired, overly focused on a goal, rushing, distracted, operating in a group, or under the influence of a group, weâre more prone to stupidity.
2. We have the wrong information. Making decisions with the wrong assumptions or facts is likely to lead to disaster.
3. We use the wrong model. We use mental models to make decisions. The quality of those models determines the quality of our thinking. Novices are prone to using models that the expert knows are incomplete or irrelevant.
4. We fail to learn. We all know the person that has 20 years of experience but itâs really the same year over and over. Well, that person is sometimes us. If we donât understand how we learn, weâre likely to make the same mistakes over and over.
5. Looking over doing good. Our evolutionary programming conditions us to do whatâs easy over whatâs right. We unconsciously make choices based on optics, politics, and defendability.
We hate criticism and seek the validation of our peers and superiors. We often want to feel good about ourselves first and have the outcome we desire second.
Luckily, we can take steps to reduce the odds of stupidity and increase the odds of good decisions in each of these categories.
Creativerly (Newsletter)
Creativerly is a weekly digest about creativity and productivity-boosting tools and resources, combined with useful insights, articles, and findings from the fields of design and tech.
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âMy goal is to help creative people find new tools and resources, which they can use to boost their creativity and productivity.
On top of that, I want to give you useful insights, share great articles which deliver great value, and also tell you about my personal learnings, so you can profit from them.â
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Ask yourself thisâŚ
Can you resist the urge to complicate?
Same time next week,
đ¨â𦰠Keith
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