THE EXPONENTIAL MINDSET
FOR THE VERY GREATEST POSSIBLE LIFE
Rough draft
THE MINDSETS
We talk of the following, but we do not explicitly, in many cases, really nail down the "Exponential Mindset".
1A. The efficiency mindset (where we can get stuck in the game of "faster") (Efficiency Ratio)
2. The priority management (80/20) - a cousin of the exponential mindset.
WE TALK OF PRODUCTIVITY STRATEGIES
Eliminate the least important (scavenge it out, list what to eliminate and powerfully eliminate it; say no (in light of a bigger yes to devote time to).
We eliminate the barriers (pressures, lack of skills, psych misbeliefs, etc.), often with a huge return!
And we try to put it all together and checklist it in my book "Life Value Productivity" (link to the Kindle book via Books, Booklets).
AND, ON TOP OF THOSE IS THE EXPONENTIAL MINDSET
This could be called a subset of importance, which it is, in a sense.
You might call it a somewhat different view (only).
All it is is to look at each thing you do with the longest possible view of the timeline.
The biggest return of all is in "Life Learning", as it leads to the biggest effectors of life value (long term, lasting, true happiness). Once we learn how things work in life and how to work them (via The Life Wisdom Mindset), we are off and running, doing life over and over at a higher and better level.
The value in a 100 hours of life learning is that the thinking, strategies, and ways of proceeding are used over and over and over and over in life, so the little bit of immediate value gained (after a "loss" of a 100 hours) is multiplied by each time it affects our lives, which can be 1,000's of times.
The biggest return of all, though it takes a "build" to get there, is changing the "conversation", in a substantial way, inside our head, as that goes on 24/7 as is the greatest affector in life, determining the majority of the quality of life.
EXPONENTIAL MULTIPLIED BY EXPONENTIAL
But, although these are used many times, their effect is not linear (1 + 1 + 1...). Instead, for instance in the thinking and better decisionmaking, we make better choices so that we free up time from the effects of our bad choices, so that we can have more time to do more high value life learning!
And if we realize that life momentum is linear and that to raise the trajectory we need outside forces intervening to push it up, we have a unique insight that can lead to another unique, incredibly value insight. We can realize it is in our interest to intentionally cause the outside forces to impact our momentum line upward. The result is not simply a more upward straight line, but an exponential growth curve.
Yes, the growth mindset tends to be exponential (look at a growth curve and see how it bends upward), but when we add the mode of thinking that has us project forward based on the number of times something is useful in life times an adjustment for a carefully determined higher value item, we add an extra multiplier to the normal growth curve in terms of Life Value units!
Combine and build all of these and you will, definitely, guaranteed, absolutely create the greatest life no matter what!
WHAT TO DO TO APPLY THIS AND IMPLEMENT IT
A SPECIAL BIT OF ADVICE!
Don't go any further in your life without finishing and having fully ascertained the relative life value of each area of your life AND the highest value activities in your life.
Do it now, and you'll start allocating your life for your very best life!
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AN EXAMPLE OF MIXING AND APPLYING THE MINDSETS
The classic example is how men often overvalue work. They do not think about a better way to get the side benefits of work (validation, recognition, socialization, etc.), so they stay stuck in the box because of misvaluing work, stuck in The Fixed Mindset.
Also, if they had done life learning, they would not be stuck in the state of needing many of the things they think they need AND they could identify "faux" value (that which we think will be of value and because we think it will be will get a shot of dopamine, which we value, but often with poor long term consequences - which can be exactly the same as an addiction, but not to substances). And, when trading off whether they should do more work (though they don't have to financially) or life learning and/or giving value to their spouse, they choose work, based on their wrongly determined total value from the actual benefit of work plus the faux value.
Studying these materials on this site, if the man did it at all, would have the man living a new life of freedom, spaciousness, aliveness (versus numbness), ease (vs. pressure, anxiety), and pure happiness (the final product of the exponential mindset!!!!
