Mindset

Key Traits

• Patience
• Systems Thinking as opposed to reductionism
  • expect and embrace surprise and uncertainty, to be reflexive and acknowledge the limits of what is knowable or controllable
• epistemic humility
  • changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one
  • the map is not the territory - misplaced concreteness -
  • what is the model ignoring
  • Suspend disbelief. Give each idea enough of a shot to test it rigorously for yourself.
  • Withhold definition. Notice the tendency to label things as one way or the other and explore life in the space just before that moment.

Adopt a Growth Mindset

• growth vs fixed mindset
• Internalize your goals

Embrace Multiple Perspectives

• Coherent pluralism
• post tragic
• both-and thinking
• we co-create our reality

Tell the Truth

• in order to be able to think you have to risk being offensive
  • Niceness

Take Responsibility (Internal Locus)

• Focus on What You Can Control (Internal vs External)
  • select systems and processes not goals
  • Internalize your goals
• we co-create our reality

Taking care of oneself

• To be of service you have to be fit for service
• engaging in the world for its own sake (not as a mean to an end)

One of the most simple ways to change one’s life is to ask: of all activities I currently engage as means, how can I find elements in them to engage as ends? Tyler Alterman

Mindset Strategies to Improve

• Detachment makes you perform better

• Move towards fears

• Embrace Uncertainty

• dedicate yourself to giving every gift you have to give

• Develop Mental Override - Willpower everyday

  • delayed gratification
  • Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life

• Complaining is not an effective strategy

Archetypes

• Warrior Poet

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