UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship by MJ DeMarco

Author:MJ DeMarco [DeMarco, MJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: start up, motivation, investment, fastlane, career, small business, start-up, finance, management, millionaire, wealth, freedom, Entrepreneur, success, money, stock market, starting a business, investing, retirement, entrepreneurship
Publisher: Viperion Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00

TECHNIQUE #1: SOCRATIC QUESTIONING

Burying bullshit requires hard questioning. If you want to weaken the SCRIPTED OS, call yourself out. The key to having an effective “callout” is Socratic questioning. Socratic questioning is a disciplined inquiry into trains of thought. By looking into the depths of these trains, biases, assumptions, and possible blocks of progress are uncovered.

Take this example: You see a young man driving a supercar and automatically label him a trust-fund brat. Socratic questioning looks like this:

Why did you conclude the driver is a trust-fund brat?

Because he’s young, and young guys can’t afford stuff like that.

Do you have evidence supporting this conclusion?”

No, but one guy I know drives a BMW 3-Series which he got for his birthday.

Is this direct evidence in this circumstance? A fact?

No, I guess not.

If your thought was proven false and the young man was actually self-made, how would that make you feel?

Then I’d guess I’d feel inadequate, even jealous.

Why do you think you feel that way?

Probably because I haven’t done much with my life and I still live at home with my parents.

Why would you feel like that? Is it justified?

Pretty much, I play a lot of video games and haven’t found a good job. The last time I read a book was To Kill a Mockingbird in high school.

What’s the effect of thinking or believing your assumption?

I guess it gives me a good reason to keep doing what I’m doing and feel OK with it.

What could change if you no longer held this assumption?”

That anything is possible, even for me. Well, assuming I work hard and get some luck too.

Ahhh luck…let’s talk about that…

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