Thread by @oliverjumpertz

Did you know that there is a strategy that can make you 100% more likely to achieve your goals?

It is simple, yet highly effective, and it works for software developers learning how to code, for starters in business, and martekers alike.

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1. Most people set goals

We all have dreams and goals.

- Learning how to code
- Earning a million dollars in a year
- Starting a highly successful business
- Finding our dream partner
- Closing a million-dollar deal
- Getting the promotion we deserve

There are so many goals out there that we couldn't count them all, even if we wanted to.

It's great to have goals because they are our drive. They make us leave our comfort zone and explore the unknown to reach them.

Goals lead to ambition. Reaching them is awesome.

Only setting a goal has issues. It's nothing else than a statement that could sit there forever.

Psychologically there is nothing that drives you to really go for it. You've said it. You've maybe written it down, but what then?

It's up to you to pursue it.

2. Ask questions

Questions are interesting because they spark curiosity in us.

If you ask yourself a question, you will put the time in to find an answer.

A quick Google search, six hours, and a few articles about the Third Reich on Wikipedia later, you have your answer.

It's an interesting phenomenon that you can use to your advantage.

Don't be driven by a simple statement, be driven by questions.

You turn your goal:

"Learn to develop software within a year."

into:

"How do I learn to develop software within a year?"

This transformation doesn't seem like much, but it changes a lot.

Write it down. No matter whether it is a whiteboard, a sheet of paper on your fridge, or on your desk.

Whenever you engage with this question, you will immediately invoke a process that looks for answers.

This process sparks curiosity, which leads to a boost in motivation to tackle the question at hand.

You immediately begin looking for more information, and information is what you need to obtain to get closer to answer this question.

During your research, you will especially be open to everything you find, and not only to a tiny amount of it.

You will uncover many possible ways to reach your goal. And all these ways can spark new questions.

It is like a tree with many different paths down to its leaves.

Every path in this tree of questions is a possible path for you to follow.

If you ever hit a dead end, you can go back and start from where you branched off initially.

Each question answered, leading to new questions, will also lead to new knowledge.

And then you follow one path, and while you work on it, you uncover new problems and questions that open more branches.

The process becomes parallel.

1. Research
2. Work
3. Uncover a problem
4. More research
5. More work
6. Uncover another problem
7. Rinse, repeat

You follow this process until you arrive where you actually wanted to get to, and more often than not, you will see that you can get even further than you actually planned to.

You are always at the edge of uncertainty which motivates you to look deeper and go further.

3. Thread end

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