"Avoid future frictions"
"Avoid future frictions"
— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)
In the book
Protect your focus and forethought. Automate the small choices, spend your energy in your circle of influence, and choose with forethought, judgment, and values. Use simple sorting labels. Run incoming demands through quick buckets — critical, necessary, desirable, out — so the trivial never crowds out the vital; and weigh a choice partly by whether it helps you avoid future frictions down the road. Apply the regret test — take the path of no regret — and ask whether you chose courage over comfort. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)