You, too, can take advantage of natural selection. Remember: whenever it encounters a population, it “kills” some of its members. Therefore, you can become stronger by making yourself a population – of habits and beliefs – and getting rid of the unfit ones. Even though your ego wants to save them. Natural Selection Big Ideas Improvement
If you want to be a fast skier, it’s very easy. Just keep your skis straight, your knees bent, and go down the slope as straight as possible. You will have a hard time avoiding a crash, but for a few seconds, you will be fast. Everyone can be fast. The hard part is being fast while retaining control. The hard part is to be fast in the short term and the long term. Performance Improvement
The easiest way to increase performance is to narrow the time frame over which it is measured. Sadly, it is also the easiest way to produce unsustainable performance. Performance Ergodicity Improvement
The solution is to realize that natural selection, while inevitable, can be further pushed down to lower levels. Just like companies can protect themselves by firing their unfit employees, employees can protect themselves by firing their unfit mental patterns. To protect the individual, natural selection must be free to act within the individual. There, it can select the beliefs and habits of his or hers that are fit (i.e., beneficial) and terminate those that are unfit (i.e., hinder his or her performance). This is fractalization. The name comes from the realization that natural selection acts across levels with a fractal-like pattern. Just as it acts within a market by selecting companies, it acts within companies selecting employees, within individuals selecting beliefsNatural Selection Fractalization Improvement Big Ideas Fractal
If you want to survive, do not identify with your habits and beliefs but with their container. This way, you will let natural selection remove the habits and beliefs that are holding you down. You will get stronger, thus less likely to become the victim of natural selection yourself. Natural Selection Big Ideas Improvement