Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Don’t Outsource Your Mind — Think for Yourself

13 May 2025 · 1 min

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A speaker walks through how to evaluate a grant application by doing the thinking yourself instead of delegating it. Upload the guidelines, extract the key eligibility issues, ask the applicant targeted questions, and build answers together. The core idea: don't outsource your mind.

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You know, and again, but then I've reworked it to, right, here's first step. Do not move forward until you've asked the person to upload the guidelines. Then give me the key issues in the guidelines, the eligibility, measure the eligibility against the information I've given you about my organization. Hmm. Then ask me questions about why I'm thinking about this grant and what I'm doing. And then pull out the questions one at a time and let's work up the answers. So again, and yeah, but again, it's that sort of, We're still learning. It's easy to make mistakes even if you use it a lot. So yeah, it's, um, don't outsource your mind. Don't outsource your mind.