How To Consistently Operate With Extreme Clarity For Your Most Important
Goals PART II
Here are the questions:
1.
I feel most
unhappy when I…
2. I dread …
3. I am good at but do not particularly enjoy…
4. I cannot imagine doing … every day for the
rest of my life.
5. I don’t understand why anybody would…
6. … does not appeal to me.
(I’ve included some of my answers below to
kickstart some inspiration).
1. I feel most unhappy
when I…
·
am forced to
work with frustrating people that force me to do busy work that doesn’t
accomplish anything
·
when I have
to listen to uninformed bosses that don’t know how to lead me
·
can’t write
and do what I want to do with my time
·
am forced to
work long hours doing things I hate doing
·
am forced to
follow someone else’s silly schedule
·
can’t do
things the way I want to do them
2. I dread …
·
going to
work at a job I hate
·
dealing with
rude and mean people
·
confrontation
with difficult, assertive people
·
having to
work on things I don’t want to do
·
having to
spend time on tasks I don’t care at all about
3. I am good at but do
not particularly enjoy…
·
Data entry
·
Empathizing
with angry customers
·
Putting out
fires made by other people
4. I cannot imagine
doing … every day for the rest of my life.
·
working at a
boring 9–5 job
·
busywork
·
data entry
·
working with
people I don’t like or respect
·
staying in
one city
·
a job where
someone has total control over my career progression
·
phone sales
·
commuting
more than 30 minutes each way
5. I don’t understand
why anybody would…
·
want to work
at a boring job that crushes their spirit
·
work with
rude, annoying, stupid people
·
not travel
the world
·
not make
passive income
·
let one
person dictate their career success
·
be content
to simply “survive” then they could thrive
·
let others
bully and intimidate them
6. … does not
appeal to me.
·
Anything I
can’t control and create myself
·
Following
orders from people I don’t trust
·
Living by
someone else’s rules
These questions helped me to some critical
insights about my career and life’s work.
The World Doesn’t Want You
To Have Clarity, Focus, or Discipline
The world doesn’t set you up to succeed, to have
extreme clarity on your most important goals. No, the world usually just wants
you to pay.
Your attention and focus are very lucrative
commodities; the world spends billions of dollars every year to capture your
attention through creepy-bordering-on-stalker level advertising campaigns, push
notifications, TV subscription services, celebrity gossip, mud-slinging
politics, and a million other distractions. It’s so easy to mentally “check
out.”
The world sets you up to fail. Franky, the world
would prefer you don’t have clarity; clarity often brings realizations at how
silly most things really are and how you don’t need to spend any more time,
attention, or money on practically everything. As Neil Patel co-wrote in his
book Hustle:
“It’s absurd that we would prioritize the hottest new device, the cool
car, or trendy toy over owning that which makes us feel the most engaged and
most alive.”
If you want extreme clarity and focus on your most
important life goals, you need to let go of what society expects of you.
Right before the Great Depression shocked the
world in 1929, Irving Kahn was a beginner investor. Now over 100 years old and
incredibly wealthy, he recalls a memory about his initial investing:
“One of my clearest
memories is of my first trade, a short sale in a mining company,” he
remembered. “I borrowed money from an in-law who was certain I would lose it
but was still kind enough to lend it. He said only a fool would bet against the
bull market.”
But by the time the Wall Street crash took hold in
the autumn, Mr. Kahn had nearly doubled his money. He didn’t listen to the
crowd.
“I would recommend
that private investors tune out the prevailing views they hear on the radio,
television and the internet. They are not helpful.” Kahn explained. “You
must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses.”
Commitment to your life’s work requires all your
attention and focus; the last thing you should be thinking about is fitting
into “polite society” and fitting in. Most people’s advice is usually wrong,
basing their guidance on pain-avoidance, fear, and mob-mentality.
If you want extreme clarity, don’t follow the
unsure, unconfident crowd. Besides, if you truthfully commit to achieving
clarity, your days in the ordinary majority are numbered, anyway.
“Would you be as
successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took
chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried
about being liked.” -Tim Grover
In Conclusion
Clarity is a rare gift, one that most people
haven’t known for years. Perhaps they’ve never really felt clear on what they
truly want.
Since most people can’t say they have extreme
clarity and vision for their future, the warning is obvious: don’t listen to
most people. Don’t take advice from almost anyone — only those who truly
know how to get where you want to go.
Instead, take time and invest in yourself; ask yourself
the questions that will bring clarity.
Focus on cultivating activities that are based on
what you truly want, not what others expect of you, not what you think others
expect of you. That road is exhausting, confusing, and endless. Clarity is much
better than empty praise for following the rules.
Anthony Moore
https://theascent.pub/how-to-consistently-operate-with-extreme-clarity-for-your-most-important-goals-fd99626699ba
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