In nature, those who are fit thrive, and the unfit perish. Natural selection is a cruel yet essential phenomenon. Natural Selection
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
An organization that never fires a single employee becomes uncompetitive. Natural selection at the level of the industry will make the company fail. Therefore, to avoid becoming a victim of natural selection, a company must make it act on its employees, at least in a measure. Natural selection is inevitable for companies, but they can decide whether it acts on them or within them. Natural Selection
Natural selection benefits populations. This is good news if you are a population and bad news if you are one of its weak members. In the latter case, you can turn the tables by making natural selection work for you rather than against you. The trick is to become a population yourself. This is easier than it seems. After all, you already are a population: of habits and beliefs. If you let the feedback you receive from your environment hurt the habits and beliefs that are holding you back, you are effectively making natural selection act inside you rather than on you. You become stronger rather than extinct. You are not your habits nor your beliefs. You are their container. Their survival is not yours. What’s best for them might or might not be what’s best for you. Natural Selection Charles Darwin Big Ideas Beliefs
Markets are made of businesses, businesses of employees, and employees of beliefs and habits. Natural selection is inevitable, but we can avoid it at any given level by pushing it towards a lower one (in some measure). Natural Selection Big Ideas
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