Live Limitless: Will power, Success path, Hyperbolic discounting & 2 cool stories!

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Live Limitless: Will power, Success path, Hyperbolic discounting & 2 cool stories!!

read on LIFELETTER.RAAMANAND.COM   |   NOVEMBER 12, 2022 

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3 Big Ideas, Tips or Strategies for this week

1. Will Power

Will power has a limited battery life and needs recharge, making each act that needs will power become a win-lose situation. Next time, try ‘why-power’. It’s powerful, strong, and doesn’t need recharging.

2. Success Path

Success comes down to being appropriate in the moments of your life. If you feel you are the right place, doing the right thing, then you are on the path of success.

3. Hyperbolic Discounting

A cognitive bias, where people choose smaller, immediate rewards rather than larger, later rewards. The discounted present value of the future reward follows a mathematical curve called a “hyperbola.”

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2 Stories, Quotes, or Case-Studies for this week

1. The Obstacle on the Roadway 

Once the mayor of a small village had a boulder placed in the middle of the roadway. Then, he hid himself behind a tree and watched the villagers passing by. He wanted to see if any of them would attempt to remove the big rock. But no one seemed to care about it.  Even some members of the council came by and simply walked around the rock. Some villagers loudly blamed the mayor for not keeping the roads clear, however none did anything to get the rock out of the way. Then, an old peasant came along, carrying a load of vegetables. When the peasant approached the rock, he laid down his burden and tried to move it to the side. He struggled for a while, and he finally succeeded. Afterwards he picked up his vegetables, and was about to continue his way, when he noticed a purse lying on the ground, where the boulder had been placed. He opened the purse and found inside several gold coins and a note from the mayor reading that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder.  Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition!

Source: Powell, Barry. Storytelling.

2. Embracing Diversity

Pablo Picasso was travelling through Spain on a train. Once his seatmate discovered who he was sitting opposite, he started to rant about the failings of modern art. He talked about how he despised Picasso’s paintings because they didn’t look ‘real’, that his work was a false representation of images in the world. Picasso listened quietly. The man finally pulled a small snapshot out of his wallet and said, “Here is a picture of my wife, this is what she really looks like.” Picasso took the snapshot from the man, held it sideways, and peered at it for a long time. Finally he remarked, “Well, she is awfully small…..and flat.”

Source: Unknown.

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1 Critical Question to Ask Yourself

Everyday we make hundreds of decisions and most of them are at sub-conscious levels or automatic behaviours. Everyday force yourself to think mindfully and ask yourself:

“What is the ONE thing I can do right now?”

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Raam Anand

Publishing Coach to hundreds of first-time authors around the world
Publisher & Chief Editor at Stardom Books (USA/India)
Author of the International Bestseller, Write Now