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#67 The Options Portfolio
You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. You must choose your path with the best odds.
Look there's 2 places people start when creating options:
"I have no options. I can't imagine what else I could do."
"I can do anything! How do I choose?"
It's work to realize that neither starting point is reality, but once you do you begin to see that the path to creating options starts with thinking about our odds.
The Uncertainty Spectrum
Introducing the uncertainty spectrum. On one end we can't see our options, and we risk being stagnant, never growing and never experiencing the success or happiness we could.
On the other, we risk taking blind leaps and chasing shiny objects that we have no advantage in. We risk choice overload, overwhelm and procrastination.
In the middle however, when we get a proper view, we become unbreakable. We understand our advantages, which give us confidence to do something new, and we have proper filters for weeding out low odds choices.
Toward High Odds Options
It ain’t skills, education, money, credentials or any other traditional way people get ahead.
To get high odds, we need to know more about what to avoid and eliminate than what to actually do.
We need:
A strong foundation rooted in our advantages
Filters to remove false options
A reliable process for ideation
A mechanism to problem solve along a path of several options (Portfolio Operation)
Foundation
You must know yourself and understand where you can compete. This is why the foundation of all I do with my clients is Advantage Mapping.
This process ensures you know how you create advantage, and what you are here on this earth to do.
With that knowledge you set your course.
Filters
FILTERS are mechanisms that get rid of fake options and shiny objects that low odds of getting us to where we want to go.
Anti-goals
deciding what you don’t want is often easier than what you do want
elimination is more robust because it frees up mental capacity
This is how I started my own career exploration. I didn’t want:
to travel
to raise capital
to work for anyone
to go to an office
to miss my kids school or sporting events
Read more on these topics:
Inversion: solving problems backwards
Charlie Munger “All i want to know is where I’ll die so I never go there”
Your future vision
You don’t need a goal
You need a big ideal or feeling that illuminates your pathway
Anything not aligned with this vision is a distraction
Idea is to envision who you want to be and take those actions now. Start living as that person
Your Advantages
Play games you can win
By using your Advantages
Or seeing a pathway to expanding/creating advantage
Avoid games where you don’t have an advantage
Ideation
Now that we know what lies outside of our Circle of focus, we can begin to ideate hard.
Here are the rules of ideation:
Never ideate and edit in the same session. We must diverge to capture the full power of our brains.
Then we converge, by combining, removing and adding around only the best ideas.
After you converge, take your list and stack rank your options. Cross out everything that comes after y #3 and forget about them. We want a max of 3 options. Anything else is overload.
Here are several other brainstorming rules that I learned from World Class Design Firm IDEO:
Portfolio Management
Now we need a mechanism to make progress on several options at the same time.
Most people have learned to pick a path and plan out every step. We are going to do the opposite.
A good portfolio manager makes a few bets based on a hypothesis of the future
If they’re wrong, they cut exposure (stop doing what isn’t working)
If they’re right, they add exposure (do more of what works)
Here’s the plan:
GOAL: acquire information that either tells you to keep going, or stop. (Signal acquisition)
ANTI-GOAL: avoid any middle of the road feedback. This is our enemy. We want Hell yess’s or Hell no’s.
Actively seek out disconfirming information
Identify high leverage activities that that could move you along multiple pathways
Continuously update your view of next steps while avoiding thinking 5 steps in the future.
Hypothesis>Experiment>Learning>New Experiment
The quality of your learning and the speed of your progress depends on the boldness of your experiments
Timid with your outreach and questions, slow learning
Small with your asks, small with your progress
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