Treat Life Like An Experiment, Another approach to decision making |
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Treat Life Like An Experiment, Another approach to decision making |
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Sep 26 2014, 07:54 AM |
As a species we're very concerned with the notions of success or failure. This spills over into many things we do. Making a decision can often be delayed and delayed.. all because we're concerned we might make the wrong one. So consequently we end up doing nothing at all !
This can be related to my other thread about not caring too much. We often put too much importance and emotion on things when we should just detach from it and let it happen as it will. Let's pretend you're thinking about trying out a certain marketing technique for your music but you're unsure whether it will work and you'll feel foolish. What's stopping you here ? Mostly the fear that you MAY feel foolish. A fear of a potential emotion. It may be easy to look at this and think 'Pah, that doesn't apply to me' but we all have avoided, or will avoid, things in life due to the fear of how it may potentially affect us emotionally. It's very common. So, what if you change your perspective and frame the situation differently ? Treat it like an experiment. Experiments do not fail. Experiments set out to gather information, prove or disprove a hypothesis. What experiments do is GIVE RESULTS. And that is always valuable, regardless of the outcome. So, applying that to our imaginary marketing decision, we may set out with an open mind, allowing the experiment to provide us with the results that we can take with us and learn from. The results may be that: -Loads of people responded to it well and this would be a great way to do things again. -People didn't react much to it at all and wouldn't be worth doing again. Now, if we were emotional about it and hoping and hoping that we would receive the 1st outcome only then we would be very disappointed right now and ignoring the useful feedback from 'the experiment'. But if we know this is an experiment and that its goal is not to produce a particular result but to gather information, then we can feel a lot better about the process and disregard such notions as it succeeding or failing. It did what it set out to do. That way, an experiment can never fail. So try applying this to some of aspects of your life. I'm not suggesting you use this to make serious life choices.. it would be trivialising things just a bit... but for all the non life affecting stuff that we perhaps worry about needlessly. Try it with a few small things and see if it makes a difference. This post has been edited by Ben Higgins: Sep 26 2014, 07:54 AM |
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Sep 26 2014, 11:31 PM |
"I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" - Thomas Edison
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Sep 27 2014, 07:50 PM |
fighting our nature is pretty much the most difficult thing there is. I for one, can't seem to find my way around things a lot of times, I would say that that's 99% of the world's population. We're wired to think we can control and manipulate everything. For a lot of things it /wasis our evolutionary advantage. We're not particularly strong or fast but we can control our surroundings ... for better and worse. I have to bang my head against a wall for a long time before either the wall breaks or my head does. I've learned some things a long the way but a Buddha nature I definitely do not have. This post has been edited by klasaine: Sep 28 2014, 03:57 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Sep 29 2014, 02:37 PM |
I remain a fan of the philosophies of Nietzsche and Bataille. For the former chance is transformative and helps stop the foreclosing of the world. For the latter the issue contra Kierkegaard is not that you stand in fear at the precipice and draw back but that you throw yourself in. What have you got to lose? Nothing that you had not already surrendered. What have you got to gain? Everything to become you.
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Sep 29 2014, 04:22 PM |
This thread is very inspiring guys. I think that the idea that Ben shared on this thread is very interesting to be applied. I love the fact of expecting for information instead of success from the decisions and things we do. The only thing that you can get is "doing more", and the more you do, the more you grow. Doing is living.
My experience in life and professionally is that every time you risk yourself and took decisions that you feel, there is some reward that gets back. Most of the times is success, but there is always an extra things that is called "experience". If you don't gain experience in the things that you like to do, you will never be able to enjoy them completely. And "experience" is the way to describe to the archive of information that we get from our acts, or as Ben said, experiments. -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 30 2014, 04:27 PM |
Interesting thoughts on these threads Ben, much appreciated
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