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When routine decisions are systematized your creative energy is preserved for novel problems.
When routine decisions are systematized your creative energy is preserved for novel problems.
When routine decisions are systematized your creative energy is preserved for novel problems.
Audit your last work week. List every decision you made — large and small. Categorize each as either 'routine' (you've made a similar decision before and could have used a framework) or 'novel' (genuinely required fresh thinking). Count the ratio. For most people, 70-85% of decisions are routine..
Systematizing everything, including the decisions that should stay open. You build frameworks for your creative process itself — which ideas to pursue, which aesthetic directions to explore, which risks to take. Your work becomes efficient and utterly predictable. The point of decision frameworks.
When routine decisions are systematized your creative energy is preserved for novel problems.
Any system that cannot observe its own output cannot improve.
Any system that cannot observe its own output cannot improve.
Any system that cannot observe its own output cannot improve.
Any system that cannot observe its own output cannot improve.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
Pick one habit, project, or process you are actively running. Map it onto the four-part loop: What action are you taking? What are you observing about the results? How are you evaluating whether it is working? What adjustment have you made (or failed to make) based on that evaluation? If any.
Treating the loop as a one-time event instead of a continuous cycle. You evaluate once, adjust once, and then coast on the assumption that the adjustment worked. The loop only generates learning when it keeps running — when the adjustment itself becomes the next action that gets observed and.
Action observation evaluation and adjustment form the basic feedback cycle.
The faster you get feedback on an action the faster you can adjust.
The faster you get feedback on an action the faster you can adjust.
The faster you get feedback on an action the faster you can adjust.
The faster you get feedback on an action the faster you can adjust.
The faster you get feedback on an action the faster you can adjust.
Choose one skill you are actively practicing — writing, coding, speaking, cooking, anything with observable output. For the next five sessions, split each session in half. During the first half, practice as you normally would and review your performance afterward. During the second half, find a.