2 Steps to Determine What's Right
There’s misinformation out there.
Scare tactics.
Emerging technology worries that might disrupt your whole business or life.
What does it all mean and how do we know what’s right? Or, at least what’s right for us? We can start to unravel what’s true in any difficult situation.
To do that, it requires you to be brave. Brave enough to do something that might contradict your current beliefs, attitudes or social circles.
Ready?
It requires that you do something that Napoleon Hill calls: “Accurate Thinking”. Accurate, meaning correct in all details and thinking, meaning the process of using your mind to consider or reason about something.
Have you ever heard from someone or read something that was only opinion-based with no facts to back it up? Maybe the facts were even contradictory to what they said? I don’t think you need examples here, I’m sure you’ve encountered this in some area of your life. Thinking accurately is not that.
Accurate thinking requires two fundamental steps according to Hill:
Separate fact from information
Separate those facts into the important and the unimportant
Only once you go through this process clearly and intentionally can you think more precisely. Those that think accurately do not permit others, the media, the latest trending topics on Twitter to do their thinking for them. They don’t predispose themselves to political, religious, emotional or company thought until it’s carefully analyzed, relative to anything that’s important.
I’m all for gathering information, listening to others and having empathy for the opinions, feelings and ideas of others. But reserve the right to make decisions for yourself and at the same time, be brave enough to admit when you’re wrong.
Your company, community and family will thank you in the long run.
This blog isn’t intended to change what you think. It’s a tool intended to help you with learning how to think. It’s something you can apply in all situations and areas of your life, but it does take some doing.
It’s worthwhile to do with the things that matter because as Hill says: “Truth will be truth, regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or the refusal to believe.”
And even if you don’t believe the Truth, you’re still subject to the consequences of it.