Nicolas Cole argues that asking "what's the minimum effort I need?" guarantees mediocre results. Instead, apply three times the effort you think necessary. Over-delivering on inputs makes your desired outcome virtually certain.
Most people tend to ask the question, what do I need to do to be successful through the lens of what is the least amount that I need to do? What is the minimum amount of effort that I need to do? And I really encourage everyone to recognize how flawed of a mindset that is and instead adopt a mindset called what do I need to do and how do I do 3 times more all the time? Because the reason people find themselves in quote unquote stressful or uncertain situations is A, they fixate on the outputs, not on the inputs. And then second is they ask, what's the bare minimum of input that I need to do? And if you're doing the bare minimum of the input, well, then that is like the way that you make the output as questionable as possible. It's like, yeah, maybe it'll work, maybe. But you know how you practically guarantee that it works? You take whatever thing leads to the desired output and you constantly do 3 times more than it.
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