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Dan Sullivan said, “The only way to make your present better is by making your future bigger.”
Be Your Future Self Now
Benjamin P. Hardy
“The diversity of human problems I have witnessed in my life and career is nearly infinite. That being said, one reason stands out for the vast majority of these problems—the underlying reason is trauma.”
Trauma
Paul Conti and Lady Gaga
The second flaw is ego. Many of us tend to have too much invested in our opinions of ourselves to see the world’s feedback—the feedback we need to update our beliefs about reality. This creates a profound ignorance that keeps us banging our head against the wall over and over again. Our inability to learn from the world because of our ego happens for many reasons, but two are worth mentioning here. First, we’re so afraid about what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to criticism. This way we can always be right. Second, if we do put our ideas out there and they are criticized, our ego steps in to protect us. We become invested in defending instead of upgrading our ideas. The third flaw is distance. The further we are from the results of our decisions, the easier it is to keep our current views rather than update them. When you put your hand on a hot stove, you quickly learn the natural consequence. You pay the price for your mistakes. Since you are a pain-avoiding creature, you update your…
The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
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