Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
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Personal Development for Smart People
Effectiveness
Since authority is grounded in truth, this principle is immensely practical. Effectiveness is the true measure of authority. S o u n d deci- sions must be backed by intelligent action to generate real results. In order to increase your authority, y o u must consider t w o questions: Am I making the correct decisions? Am I taking the correct actions? As y o u implement your c o m m a n d decisions, y o u must return again to the principle of truth. Observe the results y o u ' r e getting. Are they consistent with your predictions? Learn from your successes as well as your mistakes. Your mind will gradually improve its predictive accuracy w h e n y o u face similar situations in the future. Experience is the best teacher of effectiveness. Notice h o w elegantly the principles of truth and power work to- gether to improve your personal effectiveness over time. First, y o u identify one of your desires and make a decision to m o v e toward it. Then y o u use your predictive abilities to select a reasonable course of action. As y o u progress toward your goal, y o u need only identify the next action y o u predict will m o v e y o u in the correct direction. You use your power to m o v e yourself forward, o n e step at a time. Even as y o u take these microsteps, your predictive mind is always looking a h e a d , continually refining its selections and evaluating the results of the de- cisions y o u ' v e already implemented. M a y b e y o u reach your goal; m a y b e y o u don't. Either way, y o u experience a powerful gain. W h e n y o u succeed, your successful pre- dictions, decisions, and behaviors are reinforced. W h e n y o u fail, your mind learns that its predictions w e r e inaccurate, and it updates your model of reality to help prevent y o u from repeating the same mis- takes. W h e n y o u suffer from blocks to truth and power, this process w o n ' t work perfectly, but you'll still gain something from it. Try to realize that failure is your friend. W h i l e it's often disappoint- ing to miss the goal y o u aimed for, there's always a consolation prize. W h e n y o u fail, y o u b e c o m e smarter. You teach your mind to b e c o m e better at prediction. This is an immensely powerful result. I started learning computer programming w h e n I was ten years old. Most of the programs I wrote didn't work the first time I ran 88 Authority t h e m . Usually t h e y ' d produce the w r o n g output; sometimes t h e y ' d freeze up the computer. It was nearly impossible for me to get a pro- gram to run correctly the first try. But I took note of the actual output I got, and I tried to predict w h a t might have caused the error. Then I adjusted the program and ran it again. Usually the output was still w r o n g , so I took another stab at identifying the cause of failure and m a d e more adjustments. I kept doing this until I either succeeded or got too frustrated and g a v e up. W h a t did I gain from this process? It certainly wasn't a collection of quality programs. M o s t of the software I wrote during my childhood didn't have m u c h value, and I rarely finished anything substantial. My real gain w a s that after thousands of cycles of identifying and fixing mistakes, I b e c a m e a very g o o d programmer. Before graduating from college, I was already working as a contract programmer developing retail computer games. You can't expect to be c o m p e t e n t w h e n y o u tackle something new, but y o u can expect that you'll improve over time. All y o u have to do is set a goal, make decisions that y o u think will lead y o u in the right direction, and keep taking action. Either you'll succeed, or you'll learn from your failures. If y o u fail a great deal, it just means y o u have more to learn before y o u ' r e ready to succeed. Be willing to make decisions that m a y fail. Even though failure may have negative consequences, it also yields important positive re- sults. It ultimately teaches y o u to succeed. You can't be a true author- ity unless y o u c o m m i t to being a lifelong student. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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