Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

Intent + Hunger = Aspirational Anchor

Just think about the last time somebody shot down your ideas. There’s an underlying, if unspoken, set of emotions that leads to the rejection. Fear. Stress. Stubbornness. Laziness.

“We don’t trust ourselves,” she said. “We’ve been taught to trust experts. It’s a social conditioning. We have to de-program ourselves out of that.”

We get stuck in the land of theory rather than trying to learn and discover new information in the real world.

The answer is always the same: it depends.

The internet age has a dark side in our work: Advice Overload. It’s just so tempting and easy to seek our answers elsewhere that we find ourselves with far too many of them, far too quickly.

On your deathbed, you have clarity. You’re unhooked from cultural fluency and conventional wisdom—whether because you possess your own wisdom or because, in your final moments, you no longer care about those things. Tim believes we should try to find that same level of deathbed clarity while there’s still plenty of time in our lives left to care.

The point isn’t to be the people we admire. The point is to possess the same level of self-awareness.

So what “ends” did Mike’s customers want?