Author: Donald Latumahina / Source: Life Optimizer
Do you want to live your best possible life? If so, then there is a danger related to it that you need to be aware of. To explain it, I’d like to use a concept in mathematics called local maxima.
In mathematics, you often try to find the maximum value of a function.
One example is finding the maximum revenue that you can get by adjusting the price of a product.In a three dimensional space, finding the maximum value is similar to finding your way to the peak of a hill. In fact, the name of a technique for solving this problem is ‘hill climbing’. The technique helps you get to the peak of the hill you are currently at.
There is a danger here, though: it’s possible that you reach the peak of the hill you are at but miss a higher peak elsewhere! Why? Because you are climbing the wrong hill! You are optimizing the wrong thing. In this case, you will only reach the local maxima (the peak of your current hill) but miss the global maxima (the peak of the highest hill).
There is a profound lesson here related to personal effectiveness:
You could miss your best possible life because you are too busy optimizing your current life.
If that happened, your life would be suboptimal. You would only reach a local maxima but miss the global maxima.
Scary, isn’t it? It is, and the danger is real.
So what can we do about it?
I’m still working on it myself, but here are four tips from what I have learned.
1. Think Out of the Box
Why do people keep climbing the wrong hill?
Well, a big reason is that they can’t see other hills out there. They can’t see other possibilities for their lives. They think…The post How to Find Your Best Possible Life appeared first on FeedBox.