The Hack to Always Come Out on Top

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LOOK WIDER AND FURTHER AHEAD

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In any competitive environment in which there are winners or losers, the person who has a wider, more global perspective will inevitably prevail.

The reason is simple: the person with a wider perspective will be able to think beyond the current moment and control the overall dynamic through careful strategizing.

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event, which means they easily become emotional and think that what is happening in the current moment is more important than it actually is.

If you want to make sure that you always come out on top in any situation, then you must take a wider outlook. Don’t just make decisions to affect the current moment; make decisions that are going to affect every moment that follows.

The way to do this is by always reminding yourself of the overall purpose of the work you are doing and how this meshes with your long-term goals.

In dealing with any problem, you need to train yourself to look at how it inevitably connects to a larger picture. If your work is not having the desired effect, you must look at it from all angles until you find the source of the problem.

It’s a similar idea to extending your timeline: if you want to beat the competition, then just extend your timeline of how long you give yourself, and you inevitably will come out on top simply because no one is willing to play the long game.

An example of putting this into practice is the learning-to-earning principle.

Those who are too emotionally attached to the current moment at hand will prioritise earning because that’s the immediate impact, yet those who take a wider perspective will prioritise learning because they know that it's going to benefit them 10 fold over the long term.

You can read more about the learning-to-earning principle here.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Make "Look wider and think further ahead" your motto for how you operate in every situation, because if you’re able to detach yourself from the current situation and look at it from a logical standpoint, you’ll always make the better decision while separating yourself even further from the competition.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

Create your own action plan.

You need to get out of the cycle of consuming, consuming, consuming because chances are that you have the necessary information to start; you just don’t feel like you do.

There is no particular business you should start at a young age; what you should do is focus on identifying problems that you can solve and work on monetizing the solution to those problems.

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