None of us ever have all the information.
Not with the people we interact with at work or the people we live with at home. Not in the situations we experience each day or the ones we see through the lens of media. There are always interests, influences, and dynamics involved that we are unaware of or do not understand.
Yesterday, I reminded you, "Rule #1 of E+R=O is to embrace the reality of your situation no matter how inconvenient or uncomfortable it might be."
It can be uncomfortable to accept that you do not have all the information, and it can be inconvenient to your desires, too. It's enough to tempt you into believing that (a) you do have all the information or (b) the information you don't have must not be as important.
Resist those temptations. You do not need all the information, but you do need accurate and relevant information. That's the sweet spot: never believing you understand everything but always open and receptive to what is relevant that you do not yet grasp, understand, or appreciate.
What information is relevant? Information that enhances your ability to:
- Identify and select valuable target outcomes worth going after.
- Understand the strongest forces in your circumstances.
- Choose and craft responses to earn your target outcomes, given the dynamics of your circumstances.
You don't need to understand everything. But you must understand what affects your ability to make decisions and engage in actions to produce the outcomes you want to earn.
Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.
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