Strategies, Tactics, and Guiding Principles
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:45 pm
I'm staggered by the utility of ERE, but I'm struggling with this section of the book. Maybe I just don't get it and am trying to execute without understanding it.
ERE says:
We need to create an initial stage of consilience and resilience based on guiding principles to form a life strategy.
There are modules, which are also goals and contains goals and share goals, which are also projects or actions/behaviors/goals that have effects/consequences, and the effects are actually goals too.
We create reverse fishbone diagrams, which are also "goal structures," to determine the net outcome of the consequences.
We discard non-net-positive actions.
The remaining should have a confluence of goals/effects that combine into modules.
The module's effects/goals combine to form a web, which is then combined with other module's webs to form a larger web.
Once I have a gigantic web, I do what with it?
The examples of actions/goals given in the book (hobby, side business, job) are so simplified that they work gracefully in theory but aren't very instructive when applied to the messy largesse of real life actions and potential actions it instructs us to diagram. Additionally, those examples are not deployed when the example "web of goals" is constructed later in the book making it even harder to conceptualize this process.
I truly don't understand how this is better than:
Here is how good strategizing works.
Here are examples of goals. List your goals.
Here are examples of projects. List your projects and their goals.
Use reverse fishbone diagrams to visualize the net-value of your projects.
Limit your projects to those that:
1. Reflect your goals.
2. Create a net-positive value in money or another form of leverage (the ratio of resources input to the output produced).
3. Generate multiple independent sources of income.
4. Develop skills to replace goods and services to minimize expenses, generate income or another form of leverage.
In comparison, the book's approach obscures how the parts fit together with shifting terminology and concepts that are elaborated and then not clearly explained how they are integrated.
Here's my list of current and potential actions/goals/behaviors, etc.
firearm training
my service business
coffee roasting
video game
kettlebell workouts
elimination diet
yoga
raising chickens
creating a productized version of my business
raw food diet for my dog
preserving food
gardening
BJJ
create a lead generation business
study rationality
learn python
investing
SEO
biking
hiking
music band
camping
writing
politics
driving places
study logic, philosophy, economics
speaking/presentation
video production
statistics
math
persuasion
The modules I came up with are: income, fun, health, savings, wisdom, leverage, meaning, defense.
I have no idea how to put this together in a way that isn't extremely unwieldy and hard to take in. Any help is appreciated.
ERE says:
We need to create an initial stage of consilience and resilience based on guiding principles to form a life strategy.
There are modules, which are also goals and contains goals and share goals, which are also projects or actions/behaviors/goals that have effects/consequences, and the effects are actually goals too.
We create reverse fishbone diagrams, which are also "goal structures," to determine the net outcome of the consequences.
We discard non-net-positive actions.
The remaining should have a confluence of goals/effects that combine into modules.
The module's effects/goals combine to form a web, which is then combined with other module's webs to form a larger web.
Once I have a gigantic web, I do what with it?
The examples of actions/goals given in the book (hobby, side business, job) are so simplified that they work gracefully in theory but aren't very instructive when applied to the messy largesse of real life actions and potential actions it instructs us to diagram. Additionally, those examples are not deployed when the example "web of goals" is constructed later in the book making it even harder to conceptualize this process.
I truly don't understand how this is better than:
Here is how good strategizing works.
Here are examples of goals. List your goals.
Here are examples of projects. List your projects and their goals.
Use reverse fishbone diagrams to visualize the net-value of your projects.
Limit your projects to those that:
1. Reflect your goals.
2. Create a net-positive value in money or another form of leverage (the ratio of resources input to the output produced).
3. Generate multiple independent sources of income.
4. Develop skills to replace goods and services to minimize expenses, generate income or another form of leverage.
In comparison, the book's approach obscures how the parts fit together with shifting terminology and concepts that are elaborated and then not clearly explained how they are integrated.
Here's my list of current and potential actions/goals/behaviors, etc.
firearm training
my service business
coffee roasting
video game
kettlebell workouts
elimination diet
yoga
raising chickens
creating a productized version of my business
raw food diet for my dog
preserving food
gardening
BJJ
create a lead generation business
study rationality
learn python
investing
SEO
biking
hiking
music band
camping
writing
politics
driving places
study logic, philosophy, economics
speaking/presentation
video production
statistics
math
persuasion
The modules I came up with are: income, fun, health, savings, wisdom, leverage, meaning, defense.
I have no idea how to put this together in a way that isn't extremely unwieldy and hard to take in. Any help is appreciated.