The simple way of thinking about the law of diminishing returns is what happens when you reach the point where the effort you’re putting in is no longer worth what you’re getting out. Sometimes in life you just keep going, grinding way beyond that point, and you need to stop and ask yourself an honest…
You have a limited number of good decisions in you each day. After that, the quality of your decisions starts to suffer, and the dangerous thing is you won’t always notice it happening until after you’ve already made those bad choices. That’s the nature of decision fatigue: it degrades your thinking precisely when your thinking…
Most people confuse being busy with making progress. They work hard. They put in the hours. They stay late and get up early. And at the end of it, they look back at the last six months and struggle to explain what actually moved forward. The effort was real. The results are hard to point…
You’re overthinking this. You’ve got complex systems, detailed plans, and sophisticated strategies. You’re reading advanced books, following complex frameworks, and implementing intricate processes. Maybe you’ve coloured your to-do list in five different colours for what you have to do. Meanwhile, you’re ignoring the basics. The simple things that actually matter. This is why you’re not…
Whilst lessons in this course have discussed the benefits of the compounding effect, of consistency and doing what you know you need to do, when people get stuck, they are often stuck because they are doing the wrong things, or things that don’t really matter. If you’re busy, working really hard, and you’re exhausted at…
Continuing with the theme of the last lesson — that being busy doesn’t mean you’re always being productive — I’m going to approach this from another angle and discuss two other cognitive biases that cause the same problem. Understanding them will help you see what you might be doing wrong when you’re busy, exhausted, and…