Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,930. Today's

excerpt comes from the book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist by Ozan Verol. I do not know if I

pronounce this name correctly, but he's going to be talking about inputs and outputs. Essentially,

this is focusing on the process and not the results.

He says this, the goal is to focus on the variables that you can control, the inputs, instead

of the outputs. You should ask, what went wrong with this failure? And if the inputs need

fixing, you should fix them but this question

isn't enough you must also ask what went right with this failure you should retain the good quality

decisions even if they produced a failure the same decision that produced a failure in one scenario can lead to triumph in others.

And he goes on to talk about the question that we often hear, what would you do if you knew you

could not fail? And he turns that question on the head by asking, what would you do even if

you knew that you might very well fail? What do you love doing so much that the words failure

and success essentially become irrelevant? When we switch to an input focus mindset, we condition

ourselves to derive intrinsic value out of the activity. The input becomes its own reward.

The last part. Foc focusing on inputs has another upside.

You avoid the wild swings of misery and euphoria that come with chasing outcomes.

Instead, you become curious.

No, fascinated about tweaking and perfecting the inputs.

So this episode is for those of you who are so focused on

the results that it's beginning to consume you. This is a simple reminder to focus on the inputs.

Or in other words, the process. And there's a phrase called autotelic, which means the goal, auto meaning

goal and telos, I'm sorry, auto meaning self,

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