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Finding hidden connections

Finding hidden connections

Long-term reasoning is a mental ability to see beyond the surface,

Long-term reasoning is a mental ability to see beyond the surface,

to discover root causes, patterns, and the big picture.

to discover root causes, patterns, and the big picture.

It is using deep understanding to make decisions that are good

It is using deep understanding to make decisions that are good

not just for now, but for a very long time, often for yourself and others together.

not just for now, but for a very long time, often for yourself and others together.

Knowing what truly matters

Knowing what truly matters

Defining what is most important is essential to prioritize among competing goals

Defining what is most important is essential to prioritize among competing goals

It creates a filter for decisions to face everyday choices

It creates a filter for decisions to face everyday choices

This way daily actions align with long-term vision,

This way daily actions align with long-term vision,

revealing which sacrifices are worth making.

revealing which sacrifices are worth making.

Considering expanded time

Considering expanded time

Taking into account the impact of our actions allows us to focus in the important.

Taking into account the impact of our actions allows us to focus in the important.

Building the conditions for your vision to naturally grow over years

Building the conditions for your vision to naturally grow over years

Revealing leverage points, small actions with big long-term impact

Revealing leverage points, small actions with big long-term impact

changing how to measure success by learning from mistakes

changing how to measure success by learning from mistakes

Mapping consequences

Mapping consequence

Creating a detailed trail map that shows you where each path actually leads.

Creating a detailed trail map that shows you where each path actually leads.

Turning your vision from a distant hope into a step-by-step journey

Turning your vision from a distant hope into a step-by-step journey

Revealing which actions lead to tomorrow’s big goal

Revealing which actions lead to tomorrow’s big goal

Considering how your choices affect others and the whole system

Considering how your choices affect others and the whole system

Willingness to wait

Willingness to wait

Patience is the essential force that makes wisdom vision actually work.

Patience is the essential force that makes wisdom vision actually work.

Without willingness to wait, any vision is just a daydream

Without willingness to wait, any vision is just a daydream

because it will be traded for small, immediate pleasures

because it will be traded for small, immediate pleasures

Waiting allows the invisible foundations to build up before visible results appear.

Waiting allows the invisible foundations to build up before visible results appear.

Values & Priorities

Values & Priorities

After initial progress, usually is a long period where no improvement seems to happen.

After initial progress, usually is a long period where no improvement seems to happen.

Waiting is not passive. It is an active refusal of anything that doesn’t align with your values and priorities.

Waiting is not passive. It is an active refusal of anything that doesn’t align with your values and priorities.

Aligning our actions with our values, compounds over time becoming the most powerful force in long-term success.

Aligning our actions with our values, compounds over time becoming the most powerful force in long-term success.

Managing Uncertainty

Managing Uncertainty

When planning for the long term almost nothing is certain, so we need to learn how to manage uncertainty intelligently.

When planning for the long term almost nothing is certain, so we need to learn how to manage uncertainty intelligently.

Being aware that we can’t predict the future so we need to be prepared for different possibilities, flexible enough to change.

Being aware that we can’t predict the future so we need to be prepared for different possibilities, flexible enough to change.

Developing emotional resilience to keep going, making adjustments when information arrives

Developing emotional resilience to keep going, making adjustments when information arrives

Learning from patterns

Learning from patterns

Our values, purposes and final goals guide us, although we must be flexible in our timeline, methods and strategies.

Our values, purposes and final goals guide us, although we must be flexible in our timeline, methods and strategies.

To manage uncertainty we need to understand patterns as likely paths showing probabilities and tendencies.

To manage uncertainty we need to understand patterns as likely paths showing probabilities and tendencies.

Pattern learning reveals causes, showing the difference between temporary and durable.

Pattern learning reveals causes, showing the difference between temporary and durable.

Knowing we are not always right

Knowing we are not always right

Being aware that we might be wrong promotes asking, listening, and adjusting.

Being aware that we might be wrong promotes asking, listening, and adjusting.

It prevents overconfidence while learning from our mistakes, testing our options and building support teams

It prevents overconfidence while learning from our mistakes, testing our options and building support teams

It protects our vision from our own hidden errors.

It protects our vision from our own hidden errors.

allows us to see reality as it is,

allows us to see reality as it is,

Making our limits visible removes illusions from our hopes, fears and desires.

Making our limits visible removes illusions from our hopes, fears and desires.

Existing implies real constraints, that are not failures, but facts that should be celebrated, instead of ignored.

Existing implies real constraints, that are not failures, but facts that should be celebrated, instead of ignored.

Choosing smart actions to enjoy the process of becoming.

Choosing smart actions to enjoy the process of becoming.

real strength to face the future

real strength to face the future

Resilience is built upon inner stability, courage, and flexibility to face whatever comes

Resilience is built upon inner stability, courage, and flexibility to face whatever comes

Never admitting weakness, always pushing through and controlling every outcome, just represents only a  brittle strength

Never admitting weakness, always pushing through and controlling every outcome, just represents only a  brittle strength

because limits are what allow us to create solid foundations.

because limits are what allow us to create solid foundations.

and to make better decisions

and to make better decisions

Good decisions come from using limits as useful information, not from ignoring them

Good decisions come from using limits as useful information, not from ignoring them

First, clarify your vision, identify which are your limits. It might be time, money, skill, energy, information or luck

First, clarify your vision, identify which are your limits. It might be time, money, skill, energy, information or luck

Making decisions that respect those limits will lead to your vision.

Making decisions that respect those limits will lead to your vision.

Finding interconnections

Finding interconnections

Finding interconnections reveals where to act, what will happen after you act, and which actions create lasting good.

Finding interconnections reveals where to act, what will happen after you act, and which actions create lasting good.

Interconnections are the links between people, events, causes, and effects

Interconnections are the links between people, events, causes, and effects

It helps finding leverage points, prevents unintended outcomes and reveals time delays.

It helps finding leverage points, prevents unintended outcomes and reveals time delays.

defining your vision

defining your vision

Discovering interconnections leads to win-win solutions instead of trade-offs where choices imply sacrifices.

Discovering interconnections leads to win-win solutions instead of trade-offs where choices imply sacrifices.

It shifts focus from blame, which changes nothing, to improve the system by redesigning it.

It shifts focus from blame, which changes nothing, to improve the system by redesigning it.

Your vision should be: specific, embracing complexity, long-term and values based.

Your vision should be: specific, embracing complexity, long-term and values based.

clarifying the correlations

clarifying the correlations

Correlation means two things are dependent, changing together, while causation means one thing depends on the other

Correlation means two things are dependent, changing together, while causation means one thing depends on the other

Name the two things you suspect are connected, collect pairs of observations

Name the two things you suspect are connected, collect pairs of observations

Check if both go in the same direction and estimate how strong the correlation is.

Check if both go in the same direction and estimate how strong the correlation is.

and prioritizing the loops

and prioritizing the loops

Prioritizing loops helps find small, high-impact places to intervene in a system, to escape vicious cycles (that block your vision)

Prioritizing loops helps find small, high-impact places to intervene in a system, to escape vicious cycles (that block your vision)

and strengthen virtuous cycles (that accelerate your vision) guided by long-term wisdom

and strengthen virtuous cycles (that accelerate your vision) guided by long-term wisdom

Identify the loops, rank them and prioritize the most impactful ones, checking for connections.

Identify the loops, rank them and prioritize the most impactful ones, checking for connections.

Ethical choices

Ethical choices

Daily ethical choices allow us to practice moral imagination

Daily ethical choices allow us to practice moral imagination

making more compassionate decisions

making more compassionate decisions

It is a skill that must be trained to be improved

It is a skill that must be trained to be improved

With every choice you strengthen that mental habit.

With every choice you strengthen that mental habit.

require imagination

require imagination

Imagination is the only tool that can handle complexity.

Imagination is the only tool that can handle complexity.

It creates new paths increasing possible choices

It creates new paths increasing possible choices

Helping to overcome conflicts in everyday situations

Helping to overcome conflicts in everyday situations

Because real-life moral dilemmas are never simple to solve.

Because real-life moral dilemmas are never simple to solve.

guided by wisdom

guided by wisdom

Wisdom channels creativity toward what is good, real, and lasting. 

Wisdom channels creativity toward what is good, real, and lasting.

It applies different filters to provide guidance:

It applies different filters to provide guidance:

long-term thinking, considering different perspectives,

long-term thinking, considering different perspectives,

transcending reality constraints by using moral principles.

transcending reality constraints by using moral principles.

and embracing empathy

and embracing empathy

Only empathy ensures that our moral choices remain human.

Only empathy ensures that our moral choices remain human.

Without empathy, wisdom becomes manipulation.

Without empathy, wisdom becomes manipulation.

Imagination becomes a tool for control

Imagination becomes a tool for control

Treating people as ends, not means.

Treating people as ends, not means.