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Are you stacking the deck in your favour or working through unnecessary barriers along your way?
If we use the Marshall Goldsmith formula:
The pathway to a life of intention is the alignment between Aspiration (Who you are becoming - the infinite game), Ambition (The quantifiable goals - the finite game), and Action (The activities you control every day).
This note is about making the connection between ambition and action less onerous.
First a quick introduction to the brains and the concepts.
Richard Thaler is a behavioural economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017. Cass Sunstein is a legal scholar specializing in law and behavioural economics. Together, they co-authored "Nudge," introducing the concept of "nudge" and "sludge."