Life pricinples #2

3. Be radically open-minded.

• .1.recongise your two barrier.
  • understand your ego barrier.
  • your two you fighting for control
  • understand the blind spot barrier.
• .2.practice radical open-minded ness
  • sincerely believe you might not know the best path and your ability to deal with not knowing is more important than whatever it is that you know.
  • recongise that decision making is two step process, first take all the revlevant info and than decide.
  • don’t worry about looking good, worry about achieving your goals.
  • you can’t put out without taking in.
  • recognise that to gain the prespective that comes from seeing things through others eyes, you must suspend judgement for a time, only by empthaising you can properly understand others point.
  • remember you are looking for the best answer not the best answer comes from your mind.
  • be clea whether you are arguing or seeking to understand and see which is more appropriate based on your and others believability
• .3. Appreciate the art of thoughtful disagreement.
• .4. Triangulate your view with believable people who are willing to disagree.
• .5. Recongise the sign of close minded ness and open minded ness that you should watch out for.
  • regularly use pain as your guide toward quality refelection
  • make being open-minded a habit
  • get to know your blind spot.
  • if number of different believable people say you are doing something wrong and you are the only one who doesn’t see it that way, assume you are doing something wrong.
  • meditate.
  • be evidence based and encourage other to do the same.
  • do everything possible in your power to help others also be open-minded.
  • use evidence based decision making
  • know when it’s best to stop fighting and have faith in your decision making process.

4. Understand that people are wired differently -
-.1. Understand the power that comes from knowing how you are others are wired differently

• we are born with attribute that can help us or hurt us based on application
  • .2. Meangingful work and relationship aren’t nice things to have they are programmed genetically
  • .3. Understand the great brain battles and how to control them to get what you want
• realise that conscious mind is in the battle with sub-conscious mind.
• most constant struggle is with feeling and thinking
• reconcile your feeling and thingking
• choose your habit well.
• train your lower level you with kindness and persistence to build right habits
• understand the difference between right and left brain thinking.
• learn how much brain can and can not change
  • .4. Find what you and others are like
• introvert or extrovert
• intutive or sensing
• thinking or feeling
• planning or preceiving
• creator vs refiner vs executor vs flexor.
• focus on task or focus on goal
• shapers are people who can go from visualisation to actualisation
  • .5. Getting right people in the right roles in supporting your goal is the key to succeeding at whatever you want ot accomplish
• manage your self and orchestrate other yto get what you want.

5. Learn how to make effective decisions -

• .1. Recongise the biggest threat to good decision making is harmful emotions and decision making is two step process [ first learn and then decide ]
• .2. Synthesise the situation at hand.
  • one of most important decision is to who you ask question of.
  • don’t believe everything you hear.
  • everything look bigger up close.
  • new is overvalued relative to great
  • don’t oversqueezed the dots.
• .3. Synthesise the situation through time.
  • keep in mind the rate of change and level of things and relation b/w them
  • be imprecise
  • know 80/20 rules and know what is 20.
  • be an imprefectionist.
• .4. Navigate level effectivly
  • use above the line and below the line to know at which level conversation is
  • remember decision need to be made at appropriate level but they should be consistent across the level.
• .5. Logic, reason and common senes are you best tool to sythesise the reality and understand what to do about it.
• .6. Make your decision as expected value calculations.
  • raising the probablity of being right is valuable no matter what your probablity of being right already is.
  • knowing when not to bet is as important as knowing what to bet on.
  • the best choices are that has more pro than cons not the one which has no cons at all.
• .7. Prioritise the weighing the value of additional information against the cost of not deciding
  • all your must do must be above the bars before your likes to do.
  • chances are you won’t have time to deal with unimportant things which is better than not having time to deal with the important things.
  • don’t mistake possiblity with probablity
• .8. Simplify
• .9. Use principles.
• .10. Believability weight your decision making.
• .11. Convert your principles into algorithms and have computer to make decision alongside you
• .12. Be cautious about trusting AI without deep understanding.