Prioritising your growth - Part 2 [action plan included]

Edition 13th: Join me in this challenge and see the change for yourself. Will be doing this for next 4 weeks.

Hola! 👋🏽
Folks in the last edition, I wrote on stepping stone of “prioritising your growth”. In nutshell, it was focussed on acknowledging your problems, writing them down.

I also shared an action plan on the same (from Luca dellana best selling book called 100 truths you’ll learn too late.). Read below 👇🏽 if you have missed it

Prioritising your growth - Part 1 [action plan included]

Now let’s start with the part 2 of “prioritising your growth”.

Shall we? 🙌🏼

PROBLEMS ARE NOT SOLVED BY ADDRESSING THEIR SYMPTOMS, BUT BY ADDRESSING THEIR ROOT CAUSE

If you look closely at some friend, relative, or colleague of yours who has been stuck with the same problem for months, the chances are that he has been focusing his efforts on relieving the symptoms of his problems, rather than on solving their root causes.

A man in a sinking ship has a problem: water in the boat. Taking a bucket and throwing the water overboard will not improve his situation, at least not until he solves the source of that problem: the hole in the ship. Unless he fixes the hole first, the water he throws away will be replaced by a new one coming in from it.

Similarly, solving a problem without solving its root cause will only improve your situation temporarily. Until the root cause of problems is solved, it will keep throwing problems at you. Temporary relief never takes permanently away the feeling of being overwhelmed.

Solving a problem without solving its root cause is like taking a step forward and then one back. Many enjoy the dance, but then complain it doesn’t bring them anywhere. Don’t be like them.

Solving the root causes of your problems might not feel urgent but is the only way forward.

Fact: you will have to face problems all your life.

Also a fact: you have some decision power in whether they will be the same over and over.

Repy to this email with your action plan, we are together in this. DO IT, accountability is an important part of this.

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🤖 What’s happening in AI last week

Open AI is shipping like an early stage startup. They have launched plugins, it’s the GAME CHANGER.
This short summary of new ChatGPT features belo really underscores how explosively the scope of AI tools is expanding. It looks like ChatGPT could quickly become WeChat on steroids for the English-speaking world. Thanks to NP for sharing this.

Cooper ☕ @peakcooper

#GPT4 saved my dog's life. After my dog got diagnosed with a tick-borne disease, the vet started her on the proper treatment, and despite a serious anemia, her condition seemed to be improving relatively well. After a few days however, things took a turn for the worse 1/

Woah!! I couldn’t have imagined this, AI helping animal lives, being an animal I’m rooting for this.

Amjad Masad ⠕ @amasad

"Make me an app"—just talk to your @Replit app to make software

🤯🤯

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📖Reads

I’m Going on an (Information) Diet
Lately, I am trying to reduce my screen time. It hasn’t helped me to think and focus better but also enhanced my well being. Tyler, article is helpful in understanding the framework for information diet.
➡️ Read more

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Have a great week ahead,
— Shivam