Useful Not True

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Personal effectiveness:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Useful Not True is about reframing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Success in anything starts with your perspective which affects your strategy - your actions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Your first thought (this is a disaster) feels true but it's not the only perspective.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Your first thought is an obstacle you need to get past by realizing no thoughts are necessarily true.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After your initial impulse consider other perspectives then choose the thought that's more useful to you - the one that makes you take effective actions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Understanding others:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>People share perspectives not facts. They tell you how they see things.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Like someone across the world telling you the time. Maybe it's true for them but not for you and not for most other people.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Brains lie to their owners. Nobody knows the real reasons why they do anything.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When someone says I believe... then whatever they say next is not a fact. No beliefs are necessarily true.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Beliefs are perspectives. Explanations are confabulated. Obligations are wishes. Rules are arbitrary. They're useful but not necessarily true.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Knowing this gives you empathy as you understand people's incentives behind their beliefs.</span></p>