Desires sabotage growth

 

Let us take a moment to consider your problems and the things you want to achieve. You can never pursue the latter without addressing the former. Your problems will always sabotage you if you try to chase what you love before considering them. Therefore, let’s be deliberate and figure out your next move for your career.

1. Make a list of your problems.
   Just like a single-threaded CPU process, you mustn’t try to solve multiple problems at once. Sort them first, keeping your biggest problems at the top and milder problems at the bottom.

2. Make a list of things you want to achieve in life.
   Include the things you believe you could do but haven’t done yet, including even the seemingly impossible goals. However, do not add things that depend solely on external factors. The items you choose must have a clear path forward. For example: “I want to make a movie like Avatar” is a good goal, because you can work toward it. But “I want to buy a Range Rover” or “I want to have a million dollars in my account” is not, as there’s no clear path to achieving them. Include the skills you want to learn in this list as well.

Now you have two lists: your problems and your achievements.

To truly fix your career, discard the achievement list temporarily. These items are distractions that prevent you from facing your actual problems. Don’t try to fix your car while your head is burning. Intel’s CEO, Andrew Grove, wrote about his market success in Only the Paranoid Survive, emphasizing the importance of being paranoid—facing problems before adding new features. Similarly, Transforming Nokia illustrates how paranoid thinking helped Nokia address market challenges and losses.

Focus on your problems first. Apply Kaizen, think of alternative solutions, and take bold actions to resolve your issues before moving toward your dreams.

A guide to youngsters

With this guide, you will gain a powerful skill that can transform your life—quickly and profoundly. You’ll begin to notice real results within just a month. The ideas in this guide are drawn from the philosophies of Kung Fu and Tai Chi, along with the modern philosophy of Kaizen, which played a key role in Japan’s economic transformation.

Kaizen is the practice of continuous, incremental improvement. Rather than overwhelming you with an entire book, this simple illustration is all you need to understand and apply its core principle.

First one has more chance to reach the top than second, isn’t it?
So to start implementing Kaizen right away on your supposed ambition, you have to ask yourself this question:

“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to achieve my goal?”

Remember that this tiny thing shouldn’t be hard—just a small effort. Kaizen was derived from the philosophy of both Kung Fu and Tai Chi.

Tai Chi tells you to be like water and to be soft. As water scrapes away hills over a long period of time, we must constantly repeat our tiny actions to achieve our goals. Kung Fu tells the same thing: to master something through repeated action. However, it doesn’t talk about softness. That’s the fundamental difference between Kung Fu and Tai Chi.

The problem now is choosing your path. To apply Kaizen to your life, you first have to know where you’re going. This is where the practice of entrepreneurs comes in. Have you noticed how entrepreneurs always target problems? We will do the same thing.

“Be really good at solving your problems. Then become really good at solving others’ problems. Then you’ll be successful.”

Let’s take a blender and mix all these philosophies together. What we get is this holy grail question:

**The Holy Grail Question:

“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems?”**

Now all you need is a list of your problems—things that bother you. Arrange the list based on priority, then keep asking this Holy Grail Question to yourself as much as you can. It’s your choice whether you focus on one problem or all at once.

We can add a bit of Stoicism to our philosophy and adjust our question slightly:

“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems that can be fixed by myself?”

This helps filter out problems you don’t have control over, like love and relationships. However, let’s keep our statement simple:

“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems?”

Thank you.

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