How to Discover Your Hidden Constraints

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1:10So you've got to not just go to what do I need to do differently, which is what most of us who are extremely action biased will do. You've got to take a beat and ask yourself, what is happening right now? What are the outcomes that I'm getting? Where's the dissonance? and let me reverse engineer it. What are the behaviors or actions I'm taking that are leading to the current outcomes? And then take a step back from that and say, what is the mindset that is driving that type of action and behavior? What are the assumptions that I'm making either about the way that I need to lead, about those who I'm leading, about the context that I'm in that are then driving the current actions?

1:49And that's when you start to name it. So the first step is really even uncovering that there's some dissonance and then naming the belief that is contributing to the dissonance that you're experiencing. That all has to happen before you do anything differently.