Life Principles
Guidelines for behavior and decision making that are important to continually revisit and meditate on
Life Principles
Minimum Viable Consistency
Smallest reliable version of a habit that you can do consistently, under stress, when motivation is low, and track without elaborate systems.
Ladder of Inference - Chris Argyris
1. Observable data & experiences
What’s here: Raw facts and events — the “videotape” version of reality.
Trap: We rarely take in all the data; our brains filter.
2. Selecting data
What’s here: We notice only certain details (often those that confirm what we already believe).
Trap: Confirmation bias starts here — we
Minimum Effective Dose
Something consistent beats everything inconsistent.
Small doesn’t mean weak. Small means durable.
“Once you have something hard-wired into your being, you can expand it, add to it, or bring in more intensity - but don’t start there. It’s a recipe for “nothing”.”
... See more“Trust your future self to handle future problems” ~ Dr. Emily Anhalt
The version of you that will handle that terrible experience, if and when it happens, will be born into existence in that moment.
That version of you will have more context, life experience, and more ability to handle that thing than you do now.
It makes sense you don’t know what
Optimizing for the wrong thing is disastrous
"Cutting your tennis balls in half allows you to store two more balls in each can, saving space."
Applications:
When a team optimizes for an MBO or goal, they have without considering the impact on other teams/departments or customers.
We want to drive $x in revenue, so let's do something that is terrible