Cycle Nobody talks about,
Breaking the Cycle
Breaking it feels great. I realized we are all trapped in a cycle, and we are living it without even asking why it exists in the first place — or actually, without realizing that we are the ones who made it, to comfort ourselves.
So why am I even thinking about this? Well, there are events that happened.
Initially, I used to think that by learning more about productivity, I could make progress. But after working for what felt like an eternity (some days), I now conclude that I have been stuck in a cycle that keeps repeating itself but doesn't help me move forward in life. I feel like I am getting stuck in it forever. The biggest contributor is planning paralysis — I know and plan the future, but again and again it doesn't work, and it makes me plan again. It keeps happening every time.
But after keeping quiet and shutting down all my thinking, I started to crack this — and I arrived at a great solution. Before you ask whether this is my invention, I should give you a disclaimer: no, it's not mine. It's a universal way to get the wheel rotating, but this time to move forward, not just spin in the same place.
It's very simple. It's just a feedback mechanism.
Yes, I know — it's used everywhere to improve the performance of companies. But this can be applied to oneself as well. This is the method used by companies across the world to improve their products and performance. Think about it: if this works in such a complicated place, can't it work in one's own life? Well, I think you already know the answer.
So now the question remains — how does this method actually help anyone to progress in any field? I have done research on this — not the kind that gets handed to you, but actual research.
1. Self-Awareness — The Foundation of Everything
This is the most critical part of it. Being aware of your time and your surroundings helps enormously. When you are assessing yourself and becoming aware of everything around you, you can actually do something about it. If you don't know anything about your life, how can you improve it? So the first step is getting aware of everything. This is the foundation of all progress.
2. It Accelerates the Learning of Skills
Think of this mechanism as a way of training a machine learning model. When you start giving feedback to yourself, you are essentially training your internal model — not chasing perfection, but eliminating everything that is keeping you from moving forward. If we apply this to the skills we are learning, it produces an exponential curve of growth that you wouldn't expect otherwise.
3. Motivation
Everyone wants to know how to stay motivated to do certain work. Maybe I found it. This feedback mechanism will help you with that. As you evaluate yourself, there will come a point where simply seeing your own results will motivate you. This becomes a fuel that lasts — and it won't be affected by external factors, because it is coming from you, not from anything outside.
I have only mentioned three benefits here, but that does not mean there are no others — there are far more ways this method can help you. There are also so many different feedback-taking mechanisms and ways to evaluate yourself. In the next article, I will discuss what the best ways to take feedback are and what aspects of your life you should be measuring.
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