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An examination of Principle 3.2
Philosopher Agnes Callard
Principle 3.1 - Recognize Your Two Barriers
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter , by Cass Sunstein
"The Will to Believe", by William James
Principle 2.7 - Understand your own and others' mental maps and humility
Principle 2.6 - Remember weaknesses don't matter if you find solutions
Principle 2.5
Push through to completion
Principle 2.4 - Design a plan
a. Go back before you go forward.
b. Think about your problem as a set of outcomes produced by a machine.
c. Remember that there are typically many paths to achieving your goals.
d. Think of you plans as being like a movie script in that you visualize who will do what through time.
e. Write down your plan for everyone to see and to measure your progress against.
f. Recognize that it doesn't take a lot of time to design a good plan.
Principle 2.3 - Diagnose problems to get at their root causes
a. Focus on the "what is" before deciding "what to do about it."
b. Distinguish proximate causes from root causes.
c. Recognize that knowing what someone (including you) is like will tell you what you can expect from them.
"Proximate causes are often verbs and root causes are often adjectives."
Principles 2.2 - Identify and Don't Tolerate Problems
Have Clear Goals
Principles 2 - Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life
Look at the Machine from a Higher Level
Own Your Outcomes
Weigh Second- and Third-Order Consequences
Pain + Reflection = Progress
The Millionaire Next Door , by Thomas J Stanley
Understand Nature's Practical Lessons
Evolving is Life's Greatest Accomplishment and its Greatest Reward
Look to Nature to Learn How Reality Works
Be Radically Open-Minded and Radically Transparent