noodlelover
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Constraint Theory is a simple rule you can use to grow your business and life.
Basically, rather than trying to optimize and improve in every possible way, you focus all of your attention on your biggest bottleneck, road-block, or limiting factor.
Why this is effective:
So, let's say you want to get a girlfriend and looks is your biggest road block, and your weight is your biggest road block within looks.
Rather than researching surgeries, Spending time to be more NT, and trying to loose weight, you put all of your focus and attention into loosing weight.
After you've lost weight you realize you didn't need surgeries after all and can see your bones. People start treating you better and you get free social skills practice without even trying.
By focusing all of your effort on your biggest constraint, the wins from removing that constraint spilled over and expediated the fix to the rest of the constraints.
Or let's say, after you loose the weight, girls are interested in you but reject you when they find out you don't have a car. You now have a new biggest constraint, not having a car, that would have taken longer to figure out and fix, had you been wasting time and effort on "social skill and game".
Or maybe you do discover your next biggest constraint is game, but now that you're looking better, you can spend more time talking to girls and working on your game before getting rejected, so you're more time efficient in eliminating your next biggest constraint.
You can't predict what your next biggest constraint is, so don't waste energy trying to solve it before you get to it. Eliminate one constraint at a time. You also get resources when you solve one constraint that spill over and let you solve the next constraint faster.
TLDR
For the not a single molecule loveable bastards, Don't try to do too much at once, keep your life simple and you'll achieve your goals.
Basically, rather than trying to optimize and improve in every possible way, you focus all of your attention on your biggest bottleneck, road-block, or limiting factor.
Why this is effective:
- You get the most leverage out of fixing your biggest road block. The more you divide up your time, the longer it will take to get that leverage.
- Focusing on minimal sub-goals allows you much greater clarity and focus, so you reach your goals faster.
- Once you fixed your biggest road block, you'll have more resources to devote to your next goal.
- Once you've fixed your biggest road block, the dynamics of the system change (your life, looks, and business) in unexpected ways, where you can't predict your next biggest road block after that, So any energy anticipating a specific next road block is energy wasted that could have gotten you to your goal quicker.
So, let's say you want to get a girlfriend and looks is your biggest road block, and your weight is your biggest road block within looks.
Rather than researching surgeries, Spending time to be more NT, and trying to loose weight, you put all of your focus and attention into loosing weight.
After you've lost weight you realize you didn't need surgeries after all and can see your bones. People start treating you better and you get free social skills practice without even trying.
By focusing all of your effort on your biggest constraint, the wins from removing that constraint spilled over and expediated the fix to the rest of the constraints.
Or let's say, after you loose the weight, girls are interested in you but reject you when they find out you don't have a car. You now have a new biggest constraint, not having a car, that would have taken longer to figure out and fix, had you been wasting time and effort on "social skill and game".
Or maybe you do discover your next biggest constraint is game, but now that you're looking better, you can spend more time talking to girls and working on your game before getting rejected, so you're more time efficient in eliminating your next biggest constraint.
You can't predict what your next biggest constraint is, so don't waste energy trying to solve it before you get to it. Eliminate one constraint at a time. You also get resources when you solve one constraint that spill over and let you solve the next constraint faster.
TLDR
For the not a single molecule loveable bastards, Don't try to do too much at once, keep your life simple and you'll achieve your goals.
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