Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| The Law of Probabilities Many people attribute their successor failure, to luck of some kind, good or bad. In reality, when looking back at what actually happened, success turns out not to be a matter of luck at all. Instead, it is a matter of probabilities. The Law of Probabilities says that there is a probability that everything can happen, and by using certain mathematical models, you can calculate these probabilities with considerable accuracy. In its simplest application, the law says that if you do more of the things that successful people and organizations do, you increase the probabilities that you will do the right thing at the right time and be successful as well. By practicing slow thinking whenever it is required, you will find yourself doing more of the right things and fewer of the wrong things on your journey to success. Success is not an accident. Failure is not an accident, either. The more carefully you think and plan before taking action, the faster you take control over your success in the future. ACTION EXERCISES 1. Resolve today to put a space where you think slowly between the stimulus, the problem or idea, and your response. Select one important area of your business or personal life and practice the GOSPA model to help you think clearly and at your very best in planning your future. Plan today to take thirty to sixty minutes for solitude, where you sit incomplete silence and listen to your intuition. Do this regularly. 3 Informed Thinking Versus Uninformed Thinking Beware of endeavouring to be a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed these are fearful odds. —B ENJAMIN D ISRAELI T HE TWO MOST POPULAR WORDS among experienced businesspeople are due diligence This requires taking the time, however long, to get the critical information you need to make the right decision. The biggest mistakes we make are those where we commit time, money, and resources without having done sufficient homework. The best decisions we make are almost invariably based on having acquired complete knowledge of the issue before we act. We look before we leap.” Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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