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  • Name: Smarter, Better, Faster
  • Author: Charles Duhigg
  • Type: #literature/book
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Notes

1. internal locus of control

Locus of control links to motivation. Having an impact on outcomes hugely motivates. This comes from the ability to make choices. A suggested life hack: always make choices, never auto-pilot, no matter how small/insignificant, always consider and weigh-up options and make conscious choices. Follow this up with the big 'why' as well.

2. Psychological safety

Psychological safety and its link to team work. Good leaders allow people to make mistakes without making them feel small/stupid. good leaders are people who are easy to approach.

3. Cognitive tunnelling

When under pressure, we default to the most prominent mental model. Often these models are unconsciously made. Mental models can be crafted through conscious though via visualisation or predicting outcomes on problems and solutions to those problems in a calm environment before going into the situation. What we visualise comes to pass. Mental models are powerful.

4. Stretch goals

Stretch goals with smart objectives. Think big, plan small. The only way you are going to change the world is with big vision and small tasks. Act small and often. Think slow and long.

5. Lean and agile thinking

The person closest to the problem is the expert. Distributing power throughout the organisation. Empowered people who are inspired will change the world.

A team of brilliant people with average team cohesion has less collective intelligence than a team of average people with brilliant team cohesion.

6. Make predictions

How does predicting the future help us make decisions? Writing down all possible futures and their risks vs rewards forces us to think deeper about a choice. Attach guessimated probability values to each.

(67% + 25% + 48%)/3 = 47%

3 different analysis techniques to guess the outcome of re-election.

We are culturally and biologically encoded to make a large array of accurate estimates based on vey little information.

7. Grapple with knowledge

We only absorb data/knowledge that we grapple with. Reading will never stick. Talking, writing, researching, doing assignments, giving talks, writing blogs/books are how we absorb knowledge.

Similar to reflection through externalization and reflection through internalization