Messy, big projects create a region of attraction in your life. Besides the stuff you track, they induce implicit structure in your unstructured activity like tweeting, things you notice (primed attention zone) etc. The weight in that unstructured region = ambiguity in why/how.
Scott Adams almost got it right with his systems versus goals essay, but he missed a key point that systemic habits only achieve different results from goals if they are based in an internal reference frame, required for learning them quickly and stabilizing them
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Example: if you have a list of projects and every morning you decide to pick the most important one to spend 2 hours on, you'll probably thrash and fail if there's significant how/why ambiguity in all of them...
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But if you translate to inner, then result might pop out that it doesn't matter which project you prioritize on a give day, but that you practice making decisions earlier to hit the Bezos Point of 70% sure instead of your comfort zone of say 95%
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I'm trying to get this thinking out of my own head and drafts and into public posts where it can serve as a foundation for conversations like this. Right now, it's about 50% in my head, 30% in drafts, 20% published.
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