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The Inversion Method: How Intelligent People Avoid Life-Changing Problems
What not to do — the art of avoiding bad decisions
Problems are inevitable in life.
It’s how we deal with them that matters. Or better still, it’s how we avoid life-changing problems that can change the trajectory of our lives.
Avoiding problems can save you years of trying to correct them.
Intelligent people work backwards and think about their problems from the future and take action today for a better life for their future selves.
Inversion changes your approach to solving life problems. It’s not the same as inaction or avoiding failure though.
In a different experience, example, when learning something new, failure enables you to rethink or reexamine your approach to getting better. It helps you find improved ways to ways to achieve what we want.
Inversion, on the other hand, helps you flip how you make decisions and think about everything in the opposite direction.
Thinking forward and backwards forces you to consider solutions differently. And you allow yourself to think about what would go wrong and avoid it.
