PlayBook
  • Hello World
  • Principles
    • Understanding Truth
    • System Values
    • Limits of Engagement
    • Long-term Players
  • Starting at TVP
    • Applying
    • A-Player Attributes
    • Compensation Principle
    • Joining
    • Short-Term Hires
    • Guest Co-passengers
  • Failing at TVP
    • Realignment Solitude
  • Succeeding at TVP
    • DKRs and Goal Setting
    • Feedback Loops
      • Monthly Status Check
    • ETA Culture
    • Daily Logs
    • Weekend Syncups
    • 6-month Audit
  • Operating at TVP
    • Silent Meetings
    • Effective Communication
    • Work Schedule
    • Taking Time off
    • Getting Paid
    • Jarvis
    • Upgrading Playbook
  • Evolving at TVP
    • Basics of Ascending
    • Problem Solver Path
    • Problem See-er Path
    • Organisational Maturity Path
    • Team Maturity Path
  • Exiting TVP
    • Celebrating Goodbyes
  • Executing at TVP
    • Empathy in a Team
    • Understanding 'Done'
    • Self-Reponsibility
    • Critical Constraint
    • Purpose Driven Action
    • Level 2
      • Affordance
      • Second Order Thinking
      • Truth Seeking
      • Systems Thinking
      • Compounding
    • Level 3
      • Observe
      • Understanding Value
      • Output as a Process
      • Seeing the Real 'Why'
      • Leading
    • Alpha
      • Run-time Outcome != Output
      • Asking the Right Question
      • Understanding Value
      • Influence
      • Team as the atomic unit
  • Changelog
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  1. Executing at TVP
  2. Level 3

Seeing the Real 'Why'

Understanding the cause of an occurrence is a non-apparent skill. We are trained to see only as far as what garners social acceptance.

'Why was the product delivered late?'

Status

What occurred

'I missed my timelines'

Behavior

What enabled it

'I put in less than 4 hours per day'

Belief

What caused it

'Delay of a day or two is acceptable'

Status is always the most obvious answer. And the most untrue.

Understand the why Keep asking the why until you reach an answer that you can change in yourself.

Role of Values

Our mind makes decisions based on the value system it is subscribed to. Most of it is learned through social institutionalization; not discovered within.

Belief is emotion. Value is intellect. They are interchangeable in their purpose here. Use whatever is your usual method.

When you discover the belief that is hindering progress. Evaluate if it really is relevant, to this moment. That self-question, executed with integrity is enough for transformation.

There are no objective beliefs, only subjective truths.

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