Valeria Marin
@valeriamarin
Valeria Marin
One tool to make this easier is to reframe decisions as experiments . You’re no longer a perfectionist frozen on stage with everyone watching your every move, you’re a curious scientist in a lab trying to test a hypothesis. E.g. “ I’m 60% certain that moving to New York is better than 40% of staying in Doncaster...Ok. It’s time to Blitzkrieg. ” Boo... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
“Reframe decisions as experiments“ these experiments give us practical data and there’s confidence to be found when applying this principle.
" Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over” - Jeff Bezos
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Stress can be reframed as an opportunity to think about a problem, act on a situation we’ve been ignoring.
Thomas Leroy - The Weight of Thought. What the Rumination Trap feels like.
Getting stuck in the trap of inaction because of all the potential things that could go wrong, there is some satisfaction in feeling like there’s something being done when in reality we’re just frozen by fear.
This question from Nick throws a first principles grenade into your mind. It forces you to start the problem again from a fresh perspective free of past assumptions. You often realise the real problem wasn’t the problem itself. It was the assumptions you were viewing it through.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Vague Trap Escape Route: Define the problem in simple words out of your head
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague m... See more
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague m... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Low agency is being stuck for years on a problem without realising it could’ve been solved by one hour of searching YouTube.