Welcome to Darin Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Alright, welcome.

So today I'm going to help you solve a big problem.

The problem that you have with solving problems.

And the problem that you have when trying to improve most every area of your life and

business.

Here's the problem.

When faced with a problem, our tendency is to favor solutions that involve adding something.

When often the best solution to solving the problem is subtracting something from the

existing element or situation.

This glitch in our cognitive wiring is called the additive bias, the tendency to solve problems

through addition even when subtraction is the better approach.

This is the reason why societies find themselves swimming in rules, regulations, red tape,

procedures, processes, the glut of bureaucracy, and their random stop signs in odd locations.

In the history of the United States, only one constitutional amendment has ever been

subtracted.

It was in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, better known as pro-habitian,

banning the manufacturing and sale of alcohol in the United States.

That's it, one subtraction, and it was so that we could drink freely.

Yet, at the same time, there have been 27 constitutional additions.

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