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The Most Successful People Have a Strong Bias Towards Action
Action is the only proof of ability
The willingness to take action or take a practical step forward is life-changing.
Successful people favour action over inaction. They know when to act, how to act and what to do when they have to keep moving.
In his 2016 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos said:
“Many decisions are reversible, two-way doors. Those decisions can use a light-weight process. For those, so what if you’re wrong? I wrote about this in more detail in last year’s letter. Second, most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”
Time spent making or finding excuses, worrying about being wrong and wishing for something different without taking some form of action will do nothing for your life.
I have learned more from publishing and sharing in public than I could have ever learned by reading about becoming a better writer.
