“When an online course tells you how to make money in real estate remember they are making money by selling online courses.

When a conference covers how to build an online business remember they are building an event business.

Learn from what people do as much as what they say.”

Here are some questions to ask.

• Can I increase the amount of information I get from the context?
  
  
  Are you looking for a partner? Talk to people who are happily married and ask them what they did. Run experiments. Are you unsure about having a kid? Ask if you can babysit your cousin's kid.


• My preconceptions are a filter that reduces the amount of inf

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