Hey friend,
In this episode, I explain how to live a good life by starting from the opposite question - what makes a terrible one.
If you prefer watching, you can find the YouTube video here. If reading is your thing, then enjoy the transcript below.
Welcome to The Daily Recall show. I'm your host, Vasili.
Today you will learn how to think backwards.
Thinking backwards helps you solve a problem of any complexity by inverting the question.
Let’s take a really complex problem as an example - how to live a good life. Many people struggle with figuring it out.
But if you ask the opposite question - how to live a bad life - things get much easier. You can get even more narrow by asking: "What should I be doing to live a terrible life?"
Answers start popping up in your head immediately. Have no money. Have no love. Be lonely. And so on.
So just by inverting the question, we just got a much easier problem to solve.
And then when you get a bunch of those answers to the inverted question - you just flip them back. That’s how you get an immediate list of ideas on what makes a good life - wealth, love, friends, etc.
And you can apply it to pretty much everything. From "what's the meaning of life" type of problems to daily things that you gotta do at work.
Thanks for reading and enjoy your week!
This transcript has been edited for clarity.
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