mental models

“Do you want to be right? Or do you want to be happy?”—Rick Harrison Sometimes, all it takes to handle the stressors that come our way is a compelling strategy. In fact, it can be the difference between floundering or thriving. Neutral Thinking, coined by Trevor Moawad, is a strategy employed by elite athletes, business

We discuss what’s going on at Go Be More HQ, and then how and why to use backcasting, including: Our Updates – How we feel today about one year after deciding to start Go Be More together – Why the podcast was important for us to build around – The growth of the Just One

We use Clay Christensen’s framework of marginal costs vs full costs to talk about what’s wrong with the way so many Americans are thinking about the coronavirus: – Bryan shares his day-to-day experience of being in Japan and how much more unified the Japanese response compared to America – The bad logic many people use

Jon and Bryan dive into Frederick Herzbergs’s two-factor theory of motivation and what makes us happy and unhappy, motivated and unmotivated, and maybe even successful and unsuccessful: – Herzberg researched workers in various businesses and found that there were two types of factors that affected their satisfaction and motivation at work, which he called hygiene

Jon and Bryan dive into a few topics that didn’t fit in last week’s episode about The 80/20 Rule. They also discuss: – Bryan’s use of Just One to maintain his pushup routine – The importance of consistency and tying new habits to existing routines – Using physical objects to serve as reminders of what you are

We dive into the 80/20 Rule. In this episode we cover – the history of how the 80/20 rule came to be (2:30) – how the concept relates to the idea of finding and nurturing your “1,000 true fans” (11:30) – real-world examples of how we’ve used 80/20 thinking in our lives and careers (20:00)