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*Einstein -“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” | |||
*the 3-lens principle: View opportunity costs through these three lenses: | *the 3-lens principle: View opportunity costs through these three lenses: | ||
(1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what? | (1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what? | ||
Revision as of 08:38, 8 May 2024
By Shane Parrish
Notes
- Einstein -“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- the 3-lens principle: View opportunity costs through these three lenses:
(1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what?
- Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, refers to this technique as integrative thinking.[5] Rather than grappling with seemingly opposed binary options, combine them. Simplistic Either-Or options become integrative Both-And options. You can keep costs down and invest in a better customer experience.
- the 3+ principle: Force yourself to explore at least three possible solutions to a problem. If you fi nd yourself considering only two options, force yourself to fi nd at least one more.
- the second-level thinking principle: Ask yourself, “And then what?”
- 114 the bad outcome principle: Don’t just imagine the ideal future outcome.
Imagine the things that could go wrong and how you’ll overcome them if they do.
- 77 As you read what people have written, as you talk to them, as you learn from their experiences, as you learn from your own experiences, you begin to build a database of situations and responses.
- Man can do what he wills, but not will what he wills - here's my thought on it - [3]
- You don’t need to be smarter than others to outperform them if you can out-position them.
- If there is a tagline to my life, it is “Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out,”
- the question of what your goals are in the first place - start with that for OSE, not last
- In order to get the results we desire, we must do two things. We must first create the space to reason in our thoughts, feelings, and actions; and second, we must deliberately use that space to think clearly.
- While the rest of us are chasing victory, the best in the world know they must avoid losing before they can win. It turns out this is a surprisingly effective strategy.