The Region-Beta Paradox

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THE REGION-BETA PARADOX

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Good is the enemy of great.

Have you ever heard of the Region-Beta Paradox?

Well, you might be suffering from it right now.

To understand it fully, imagine a person commuting to work. He decides that if his office is less than a mile away, he will walk to work, but if it is longer, he will cycle to work.

The paradox is that if his office ends up being longer than a mile away and he cycles, he will actually get there earlier than if he walked.

So theres a weird situation going on where something thats worse for him actually turns out to be better because it forces him to cycle and takes less time to get there.

This perfectly explains the Reigon-beta paradox—the zone where worse things are actually better for you.

So, why should you care? How does this affect you?

Well, this applies to many other areas of your life as well.

For example, if you don’t like your job but it's just about bearable, it could be better for you if your job was worse and it forced you to take action and quit.

You see, you may live a life where stuff isn’t too bad and you’re comfortable; your physique isn’t how you want it, but not too bad to where you feel you need to change.

That relationship that you’re in is not how you want it to be, but there's worse out there, so there's no point going through the hassle to make a change.

A lot of the time we become stuck in this zone of ‘It’s not how I want it to be, buuuuttt it’s not that bad; there could be worse’.

And this is not a way that you want to live your life because it leads to massive under-achievement and leaves you with that empty feeling like you should have done more, but you didn’t.

The takeaway is that whenever you feel stagnant or not motivated enough to make a change, make your current situation unbearable.

Light your seat on fire so you either do nothing and burn or take action and grow.

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So, what can you do about it?

Sometimes you need to make things worse before they can get better.

If you want to improve your physique but it's not bad enough to the point where it's a priority, make it bad.

This is also known as lighting your chair on fire, so you are forced to make a move.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

It’s all about planting seeds of opportunity for the future self to enjoy the fruits of.

It should go without saying, but you only live once. You need to make sure you’re enjoying every passing minute while also setting your future self up for a home run.

As long as you’re not destroying your future but instead preparing for it, you should feel no shame or guilt about embracing every present moment because you never know when it will be your last.

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