What you do requires brains. What you will do requires brains. You have to spend a lot of time thinking and using that kanogan of yours.
Here’s the problem: most people will do ANYTHING to keep themselves from having to think. They will use tired old boring arguments. They will use pattern recognition to assume that a new situation is the same as the last one that was kind of similar to it.
And it gets worse if the end point isn’t clear.
Give people the option of digging a ditch or writing a book and they’ll pick digging the ditch every time. Why? Two reasons:
1) Digging a ditch doesn’t take any thinking.
2) When you’re done digging a ditch, you have a ditch.
Writing a book takes a ton of mental work, and when you’re done you may or may not have anything valuable.It is far riskier to write the book, but also far more lucrative if it pans out.
You have to choose. You can be busy digging ditches or you can be getting ahead by writing the book. Getting ahead by using your brain.
Ok, this analogy is getting pretty far off base so let me reel it in.
You can keep pounding away, working harder and harder (digging that ditch), or you can stop and look around a little and THINK about what you’re doing. I know… thinking about thinking.
But that’s where it’s at. That’s where the real growth and skills come in. Or you can keep digging that ditch. Put your nose to the grindstone and keep on keepin’ on. Not me. I’d rather Scrooge McDuck it: “Work Smarter, Not Harder.”
I want to help you do the same. Maximize Your Time and Efficiency is a course I created for exactly that – to teach you how to work smarter. It doesn’t help to just say the words, I want you to actually do it – and I’m going to show you how.
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Brian Wallace