How do you approach any situation to come out more successful?
There is the old way of doing it, which is learn from people who have been doing it for so long they don’t even think about what it is they do anymore so they are useless in teaching you about it. Or you can follow some simple steps and ffffigguuuureeeee it oooouuuuttttt.
It should be so simple I will make an acronym FIO
Find a frame of reference
Intake information
Organize
OK. Find a frame of reference is pretty simple. You already have learned a lot of shit throughout your life and if you can link new experiences to older ones you will have a good start at approaching a new situation.
If you are absolutely over come with something out of your knowledge then start a new frame of reference. It’s like an ad lib if you know what the fuck that is. I’ve come into this situation ________.
I understand this about it _______. I don’t know what _________ is. Can I learn more about this myself by research? Is there someone I can ask some questions? The best thing is to remain calm and AAW.
Intake information is pretty self explanatory. Learn what you can with your peepers and meepers. Always accept you know somethings others don’t and that others know a lot that you don’t so there’s never any advantage to thinking you are above or bellow any of your fellows. This might seem pretty contradictory to the idea that you need to be aggressive or dominant in a situation but if you’r level headed and objective your chances of coming out ahead of a peer is actually going to be higher truth be told. Probably because aggressiveness will trigger more instinctive responses that rely on lower base physical responses. Which can obviously work in some situations. But if you are calm and aware of this tactic from someone you’r more likely to not fall for it and come out looking better.
Organize what you have learned and integrate into the frame of references. Make lists if you can, write shit out, do what you do but mostly just learn from your day to day. Honestly we only have so many thoughts and ideas a day it’s not that difficult to figure out what we spend the majority of our time thinking about and changing that to set yourself up better for success.
Also failing is good. No one believes it but failing is better then winning because if you fail enough to figure out why you did fail you will either eventually win or learn more to be successful in your next goal. So you could be the best at one thing or pretty damn good at everything else you want to try.
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