Think better, do better

If you improve the quality of your thinking, better, more impactful action follows.

Think better, do better

How much time do you spend thinking constructively?

Do you have a dedicated time scheduled each day to simply think?

With so much easy access to information a lot of our thinking these days has been outsourced to modern sources of information. Often instead of doing research for ourselves we simply believe what a ‘credible source’ that we find online without actually cross-checking that information for ourselves to confirm whether or not it's accurate.

Because thinking for ourselves is so hard and time consuming - we’re generally very happy to do this - but this practice also opens up a lot of risk for us.

We rely too heavily on assumptions, we become lazy in critically reviewing all the information that we believe, and as a result layers and layers of bullshit knowledge ends up making the foundations of our worldview.

I was invited to the Humble Mind podcast to talk about this topic - here are a few snapshots of the chat with Alex Searle.

How to make good decisions when you have no facts

How to improve your decision-making process

Heard of Edward De Bono's thinking hats? - this is why they might be of great use

What is outperformance and why should you care?


Here's a link to the whole conversation with Alex.