"No matter how well you do, it's useless unless the outcome changes for the better."
💡 You’re playing your best round of League of Legends. Last hitting is perfect and your mechanics are unmatched. You are DOMINATING, and happy about it.
Later, your “noob” opponent scores a lucky kill with the help of his teammate. You died, fell behind and can’t come back. You lost the lane.
You think you did everything right, yet lost. It’s like justice didn’t happen…
💡 Finland is dominating Russia on a hockey game. So many close shots, barely missing the net. The whole game seems like an easy win for Finland.
In 3rd round, Finns got an unreasonable penalty. Russia scored 0-1 on a power play. Outrageous and unjustified.
If only they would get scores on how well the overall play is…
💡 In army, our sergeant told us a cleaning trick: if we just “fake” clean the room to trick the eye, superficially and hazily, it is good enough. Like kind of a “sleight of hand” magicians do. Optical illusion.
Reasoning is that, if it seems clean on a glance, something has probably been done right.
The means didn’t matter, nor the inherent state of the room. How it was perceived by a supervisor was the target.
💡 If you “wave your hands” like this and a good thing doesn’t pop out from the other side, you need to wave your hands differently.
💡 If you learn and do things the way you typically do, and from the other side does not pop out an improved state of life, you probably need to rethink what you learn and do.
💡 In my experience, I tend to develop a blindness for the outcomes; I act the same way I do always and perfect the procedure, and even if the outcome does not change for the better, I don’t seem to care (until months & years passed, and I find myself in the same place).
I just don’t seem to catch this lack of good outcomes, as I’m tunnel visioned on the procedure (on “waving my hands” a certain way).
A good heuristic to battle this blindness then is: compare where you were “yesterday”, to where you are now. If the outcome did not change, wave your hands differently.
Today I am in my best life so far, and I finally have courage to wave my hands differently. Let’s keep improving buddy!
Niko