Konstantinos Karakostas
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Konstantinos Karakostas
@Konnosscopy
I write X & LinkedIn content for CEOs & Founders who want pipeline, not just likes | X & LinkedIn Ghostwriter
Thessaloniki, Greece شامل ہوئے Kasım 2021
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@RobertGreene Engaging with every irritation is just renting them space in your head.
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You choose to let things bother you.
You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest.
That is the powerful move.
What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement.
Your pride is not involved.
The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.
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@KevinSzabo14 The phone isn't the problem.
What you're doing on it is.
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@siddharthwv The model doesn't matter as much as the decision to start.
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@SahilBloom Information feels like progress. It isn't always.
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Everyone should read this story...
Imagine someone is struck by a poisoned arrow.
A doctor is called to remove the arrow, but the man stops him.
"Not so fast! Before you remove it, I want to know who shot me. What town or village does he come from? What kind of wood was his bow made from? Was it a crossbow or a longbow?"
While he asks the questions, the poison takes hold and he dies.
Like the man in the story, we occasionally get shot with the poisoned arrows of life.
But ruminating too much on the nature of those arrows is unlikely to help.
This is a trap we all fall into:
We think we need more information to solve our problems, when all we really need is more action.
The trap is becoming more challenging to avoid in a modern era where information is abundant.
We've become conditioned to get our dopamine from information gathering.
But you see, dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It convinces you that information alone is enough. That it's sufficient. That it's all you need.
But information alone is never enough. Information is nothing without action.
The information meant to push you forward can quickly start to hold you back.
Struck with the poison arrow, you feel a surge of satisfaction from learning that your attacker was from a nearby village, that his bow was made from oak, and that it was a longbow.
And then, you're dead, because the information you wanted had become a distraction from the action you needed.
This is what I call the Poison Arrow Principle:
Never allow information-gathering to get in the way of action-taking.
The next time you're in an overthinking loop, ask yourself:
Do I really need more information, or do I simply need to act on the information I already have?
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@stijnnoorman The reps are the strategy. That's it.
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@KevinSzabo14 Low budget, high maintenance, never happy.
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