7 ways to fundamentally change your life
Problems need more than life advice, small changes, etc. Sometimes our lives do not need optimization. It needs to be fundamentally reconfigured. We must try to solve problems by approaching them with a higher level of thinking. You have to have a superior and sometimes radical approach to solving both your daily problems and long-term life decisions. Such a solution can come from meditation, because a meditative state opens your mind to new horizons. A radical solution can help you optimise your car's engine to consume less fuel. Or it can make you move close to work so you can get around by bike or on foot.
And below we will present seven such somewhat revolutionary ideas that can help you improve your life:
1. Embrace the amateur in you. After finishing our studies, we are allowed a few years of instability in the field of work and in everyday life. And when these years are over, it is assumed that we have to settle down somewhere. It is assumed that we must stop wandering around the world. We are supposed to sit down and shut up. Nowadays, staying in a certain situation (in a career, workplace, company, city, etc.) is how you become an expert, advance in your field, and gain the respect of your peers and family. We are fed the myth that staying in one place will bring us our dream career. And we want this to be permanent; we want a career, a foundation, and secure things. But radical and rapid growth often happens when we have the freedom to try new things. Rapid growth doesn't require long trips or starting a new business, but it often requires a high level of latitude. Radical growth often requires the ability to quickly change direction, change context, and change the situation. Rapid growth requires the mobility of a dilettante. And if you practise this mobility enough, other people will perceive this as a search for your own way, for your own personality. The problem is that life after graduation is not set up to encourage growth. It is set up to reward stagnation.
I studied well in high school to be able to enter a good college.
We study well at the university in order to get a job at a good company.
We do our job well to receive even better projects or more money.
We are part of committees to impress the bosses, etc.
We don't feel comfortable pursuing what we want in ways that are not culturally and institutionally approved. But we would all live much better if we courageously followed what we really wanted.
3. Pursue self-development instead of productivity. Productivity is often displayed as self-development. But self-development and productivity are two very different things. What is good for us as individuals can be bad for our productivity at work.
4: Say "no" to the industrial productivity complex and create your own path. The productivity
The industrial complex is a union of corporations, and an entire productivity industry is made of companies, consultants, and people who find solutions that help corporations squeeze every drop of productivity out of their employees.
5. Convert your money back in time.
The industrial complex is a union of corporations, and an entire productivity industry is made of companies, consultants, and people who find solutions that help corporations squeeze every drop of productivity out of their employees.
5. Convert your money back in time.
Considering that workplace productivity has doubled in the last 40 years, we should work 20 hours a week, right? It's not necessary. We work even more than a mediaeval peasant, and the 40-hour work week has not changed since 1940, even if the level of productivity has increased exponentially since then. People convert money into time when they exchange potential income for free time to be spent as they wish. They do this, for example, when they decide to live a simpler life and work part-time instead of full-time. I do this when negotiating unique and creative work situations, when starting my own company, etc.
6. Aggressively eliminate the things in your life that you don't want to do.
It is known that productivity naturally arises from passion. When we love what we do, productivity becomes irrelevant. And otherwise, being unproductive comes from doing things we don't want to do. The direct route to productivity is to love what you do. But we cannot definitively eliminate from our lives those things that do not please us. We just have to learn to eliminate as many of them as possible so that life becomes more pleasant and relaxed. So, aggressively eliminate everything that doesn't make you feel alive.
7. Realize that perspective is often the best solution to your problems. If you read the deepest thoughts of a leader or a great scholar, most likely you will not find new knowledge. What you will find is a timeless perspective. You will find knowledge deeply rooted in perspective and amplified by perspective. The great scholars are great because their perspective forced us to take a second look at the knowledge we already had. When workaholics give up their minds every working day through their devotion to spreadsheets, sales, or analysing cases, they do not lack knowledge. Give up perspective
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