Polymaths embody the beginner mindset, which is actually far more useful than the expert mindset. When you’re a beginner, you have ten times more questions than answers. And that’s a good thing. It makes you listen and question and dig deeper. Experts all too often fall into the trap of assuming they know too much, which inevitably causes blind spots. The beginner mindset should be applied in combination with critical thinking, and together they create a worthy line of inquiry.

Polymaths have belief in themselves. Whether it is well-placed or delusional, they believe that they will reach their goal. Many people are their own worst enemies when it comes to learning. But this speaks to something even more fundamental: the belief of agency, or ability to act and achieve. This means that output equals input, within reasonable expectations. One cannot reach a goal if they don’t believe they are capable of it first.

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In personal development, kaizen can be used to focus on gradual, consistent changes that lead to improvement. Kaizen is a Japanese concept which literally means “change for good.” It is a philosophy that focuses on process rather than outcome and emphasizes order, discipline, and frugality.

In the kaizen way, what is given premium is not the instantaneous achievement of grand goals, but the consistent, incremental improvements you implement in your daily life. The principles of kaizen are useful in improving your own self-discipline, as it provides a no-nonsense, tangible method for optimizing your actions such that self-control becomes a habit and progress is steadily realized. It offers a framework for thinking about your processes in order to identify the actions that work for you and those that don’t. When appraising a process, look closely at the actions you are taking.

Asking yourself the who, what, where, when, why, and how of your situations helps you paint a mental picture of the overall flow of your actions. This will also make it easier for you to pinpoint and address occasions where you create “muda,” which is waste or the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. Kaizen teaches that the goal is to produce without waste.

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Mental Model #16 Storytell in Reverse. When it comes to causation, sometimes we just need to get better at thinking in a certain manner. You have a visual aid in a fishbone diagram, which goes on to document causes of causes and so on. This is storytelling in reverse because you start with a conclusion and you work backward through sometimes ambiguous means.

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Finally, we may need to readjust our expectations regarding success and learning. Our ideas of the path to success are severely skewed by how the people themselves are presented. Studies showed that digging into the failures and detours of famously successful people greatly increased the resiliency of students. In a sense, success is a game of numbers, where you must attempt a certain amount of times (with corresponding failures) to even put yourself in a position to succeed.

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Cartoonist Scott Adams coined the term skill stacking, and it’s about developing the best combination of traits and skills for your particular purpose. A skill stack is something you likely already possess. It’s based on the concept that you can’t rely on one skill or proficiency to stand out in whatever you are trying to accomplish. Only 1 percent of us can be in the top 1 percent of a skill, and that likely won’t be you. Thus, we should create a skill stack that is composed of three or four interrelated skills that you have reached the top 10– 15 percent of. It’s a realistic goal and will set you apart from your competition.

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Besides the things we do while learning, we must also focus on the things we do while we aren’t studying. Elements like sleep and exercise have time and again been proven to enhance how much information we can retain, and we must focus on those activities to ensure we remain as productive as possible. While sleep is when our brain consolidates new information that we received while awake, exercise makes us alert and more receptive to learning, especially if we exercise just before studying. Unfortunately, both of these factors are often overlooked or shirked in favor of blindly trying to learn more and more.

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Use the if-then technique to make your decisions before you have to decide to exercise self-discipline. Our worst decisions come when we rely on our strength of character. Thus, plan around them. If X, then Y can be your new best friend, and it is applicable in just about everything we encounter on a daily basis. It turns out we behave better when linked to other things.

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You can use principles of conditioning to set up your life in such a way that your environment supports your self-discipline instead of undermining it.

Make an honest assessment of your environment and try to identify the external factors that influence and shape your behavior.

Maintain and strengthen the factors that fuel your self- discipline, and remove or alter those that unnecessarily challenge your self-control.

When it comes to learning and molding behaviors, reinforcement is better than punishment.

However, genuine internal motivation beats both reinforcement and punishment.

While this appears to counter a strictly behaviorist view, bringing the concept of intrinsic motivation into the picture recognizes the capability of human beings to be driven not just by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, but by their values, deeper motivations, and larger goals.

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Second, polymaths live experimentally. This isn’t to say that they are always conducting traditional scientific experiments; rather, they’re applying the scientific method by analyzing and investigating whatever they come across. They feel safe doing this and simply want to gain new information and sate their curiosity. It’s almost like they cannot stop themselves from doing it.

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Thinking about or asking what you’re grateful for activates certain neural circuits that produce dopamine and serotonin, the neurotransmitters that regulate our pleasure centers and mood levels. They then travel the neural pathways to the “bliss” center of the brain, much like a prescribed antidepressant. The more you stimulate these neural pathways, the stronger and more automatic they become, and the more your resilience and calm become a natural way of living.

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