As Usual : Reminder 1
I like Steve Jobs.
Primary because of his thinking about reduction of choices.
Choices automatically gets reduced due to lack of money, intelligence, dedication, social support, location, etc etc.
What his argument was not that. It was to reduce choice by choosing the road and following it. ( as narayan murthi often says, you need to make decision right and not the other way around. )
Also his argument was to reduce cognitive dissonance, as our mind is a pattern matching machine, reducing choices upfront also free up the mind to do other things.
like, Settings app have sub settings and it also have sub settings, so a ( 4 option x 4 option x 4 option ) would be much easier than ( 8 options each having 8 options ) for a total of 64 options in both scenario.
Any company, individual, product or life, which follows this simple principle, will, ultimately lead to much better results than other option.
So how do you do exactly that ? how do you choose and stick with it, by choosing less fundamentally ? how do we apply all knowing in to all doing ? how do we reach to the action ?
I used to make no sense most of the time, and now a days, all of the time.
Choices ( if and else ) logic branching takes lots of energy, even in computer world, and also in brain world. What to do ?
I think first step is, start from a defined state, a well defined routine, a collection of nurtured habbits that one can rely on. Start with that. and keep adding things to it, as a choice, that will never change.
Everybody has, somewhere in their life, created some habit, whatever it may be, that is good healthy and because of that they are survining till now, figure out what that habit is, and start with that.
After that, slowly, slow is the key, slow down, like wait, weekly at max, do a concious choice of add to it, something, really small things, small is the key, not anything ground breaking, hell, not even the comfortable sofa breaking, just really really small things, start with that.
Reduce, Remove, Reject. Rinse, Repeat.
Think every day, What you are not going to do today ? Be proud of that too.
Good luck me. Good luck you.
Primary because of his thinking about reduction of choices.
Choices automatically gets reduced due to lack of money, intelligence, dedication, social support, location, etc etc.
What his argument was not that. It was to reduce choice by choosing the road and following it. ( as narayan murthi often says, you need to make decision right and not the other way around. )
Also his argument was to reduce cognitive dissonance, as our mind is a pattern matching machine, reducing choices upfront also free up the mind to do other things.
like, Settings app have sub settings and it also have sub settings, so a ( 4 option x 4 option x 4 option ) would be much easier than ( 8 options each having 8 options ) for a total of 64 options in both scenario.
Any company, individual, product or life, which follows this simple principle, will, ultimately lead to much better results than other option.
So how do you do exactly that ? how do you choose and stick with it, by choosing less fundamentally ? how do we apply all knowing in to all doing ? how do we reach to the action ?
I used to make no sense most of the time, and now a days, all of the time.
Choices ( if and else ) logic branching takes lots of energy, even in computer world, and also in brain world. What to do ?
I think first step is, start from a defined state, a well defined routine, a collection of nurtured habbits that one can rely on. Start with that. and keep adding things to it, as a choice, that will never change.
Everybody has, somewhere in their life, created some habit, whatever it may be, that is good healthy and because of that they are survining till now, figure out what that habit is, and start with that.
After that, slowly, slow is the key, slow down, like wait, weekly at max, do a concious choice of add to it, something, really small things, small is the key, not anything ground breaking, hell, not even the comfortable sofa breaking, just really really small things, start with that.
Reduce, Remove, Reject. Rinse, Repeat.
Think every day, What you are not going to do today ? Be proud of that too.
Good luck me. Good luck you.