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Clear Thinking, Summary:, There are factors that affect clear thinking…
Clear Thinking
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Knowing your Weaknesses
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Bad habits are easy to acquire when there is a delay between the action and the consequences. Formula for failure is a few small errors consistently repeated.
Two ways to manage weaknesses:
- Build your strengths to overcome weaknesses
- Implement safeguards that will help overcome weaknesses that you cannot overcome by building your strengths
Blind Spots: we fail to see our weaknesses for 3 reasons:
- Flawed behavior becomes ingrained into us due to habits and we get accustomed to them
- Bruises our egos - we see them as a referendum of the kind of person we are and we dismiss them
- Limited perspective. You may not see your flaws in the present but looking back in the future, you will recognize them
We see flaws in others immediately but find it hard to accept that they can see flaws in us
Safeguards
Prevention - avoid getting into a situation that requires you to make a decision in an adverse condition. For e.g. don't store junk food at home if you don't want to eat any
Rules: Set personal rules. People question decisions, not rules. For e.g. set a rule that you will work out everyday if you have trouble working out 3 days a week, a situation in which you might find excuses to skip workouts
Friction: Add friction where you find yourself doing thinks you don't want to do. If you find yourself doing something else in lieu of working on things that are important, add friction to the trivial task.
Putting in guardrails: Question yourself - what am I trying to acocmpish, what are the things I need to accomplish it? Use checklists for taks so you stop yourself from reverting to your default behavior and going back to basics. Avoid reacting using your default behavior.
Shifting your perspective: Try to look at things from the other person's perspective. E.g. in a meeting don't go only with your perspective. Start with the other person's perspective, explain what you think it is and then ask "What am I missing?" After people tell you what you are, ask "What else am I missing?" This makes sure you are getting a holistic view
Handling Mistakes
Mistakes happen:
- because you were unlucky, retrying should give you a different result
- your ideas about how things work were wrong. In this case you have to pay attention and figure out what you did wrong
Mistakes present us with a choice:
- whether to update our ideas
- ignore the failures they produced and keep believing what we always believed
Covering mistakes results in:
- Can't learn if you ignore mistakes
- Hiding them becomes a habit
- Cover up makes a bad situation worse
Steps to handle mistakes
- Accept responsibility: Emotional default is to make an excuse and usurp command over your reaction. You have to exert your own command
- Learn from the mistake: Take time to reflect on what contributed to the mistake by exploring the various thoughts, feelings and actions that led you there. If you don't identify the problem, you can't fix it. If it's an emergency, come back and examine the mistake
- Commit to doing better: Formulate a plan for doing better. Usually a matter of identifying weakness and building one or more strengths to address the problem
- Repair the damage as best as you can: not enough to apologize, you have to make sure you do better next time. Some mistakes are irreversible, in this case you have to work towards avoiding making a bad mistake worse. Don't follow through with the consequences of a bad decision, try to change course
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There are factors that affect clear thinking such as Emotion, Ego, Social pressure and Intertia
We have to counter this - some in our control such as self accountability, self knowledge, self control and self confidence
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