Derek Sivers has a brand new guide: Helpful Not True.
90 pages, about reframing. Filled with 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 info.
- Function #2: The Self-Chief – He comes to a decision and sticks to it.
There’s a level when the Self-Chief should take over. 
→ 
“Cease contemplating different viewpoints. Cease altering the course. Decide a vacation spot and minimize off different choices.”
When the Explorer tries to take management once more, bear in mind:
“Individuals who inform me they’re misplaced and operating in circles have one factor in widespread: They are saying they maintain listening to podcasts, studying books, watching movies, doing programs — taking in increasingly more info — and nonetheless do not know what to do.”
My internal Explorer reveals up on time each week, after 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 keep on with the Self-Chief.
2. No new directions for the pc
(Totally different instance, similar idea)
ChatGPT is producing a solution. Earlier than it is completed, you feed it new info. What occurs?
It stops and should rethink the reply primarily based on the brand new info.
“Run this system. Cease interrupting your self with new info. Let your self execute one plan of motion, and see it by to fruition.”
3. Non-public journal to internalize it
“Come again and evaluation your journal typically, so you’ll be able to remind your self of your choice, 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 handy for me proper now?”
I can advocate Derek Sivers’ guide “Helpful Not True” from the underside of my coronary heart.
What perspective might be helpful for you proper now, whether or not or not it is “true”?
Have a stunning week,
Lukas
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