Look before you leap

Topics: Self-discovery Calm Productivity Personal Business Philosophy

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(Smart) businesses start with MVPs to test if the market wants their product¹. In your career, experiment first with alternative work and lifestyles to reduce risk before changing jobs.². In your personal life, use an “Experimental Mindset” to explore interesting paths, and find what motivates you — Experience beats observation³.

Use exploration to discover one of your “7 best lives”⁴. Baby steps beat Herculean feats, so you don’t need to radically change your life right away.

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References

Footnotes

1. The Lean Startup ↩

2. ^851a4e, Two (Secret) Key Ingredients Before The Passion-Leap ↩

3. The Personal MBA - Chapter 11: Improving Systems ↩

4. Designing Your Life - High learning rate stochastic gradient descent with 7 equal global minima… ↩