Where I find Murphyjitsu most useful is in the area of generic little issues with my plans that tend to come up rather often. A few examples:
forgetting about working on the goal in time, due to lack of a reminder, planning fallacy etc.
the plan involving asking another person for a favor, and me not feeling too comfortable about asking
my system 1 not being convinced of the goal, requiring more motivation / accountability / pressure
the plan at some point (usually early on) requiring me to find an answer to some question, such that the remaining plan depends on that answer; my dislike for uncertainty ironically often causes me then to just flinch away from that whole plan as opposed to just trying to find that one important answer
It’s arguably more of a checklist than real “by the book Murphyjitsu”, but still, taking a goal and going through these things, trying to figure out the most trivial and easy to fix issues with the plan, often allows me to increase the likelihood of achieving a goal by 10-20% with just a few minutes of work.
Where I find Murphyjitsu most useful is in the area of generic little issues with my plans that tend to come up rather often. A few examples:
forgetting about working on the goal in time, due to lack of a reminder, planning fallacy etc.
the plan involving asking another person for a favor, and me not feeling too comfortable about asking
my system 1 not being convinced of the goal, requiring more motivation / accountability / pressure
the plan at some point (usually early on) requiring me to find an answer to some question, such that the remaining plan depends on that answer; my dislike for uncertainty ironically often causes me then to just flinch away from that whole plan as opposed to just trying to find that one important answer
It’s arguably more of a checklist than real “by the book Murphyjitsu”, but still, taking a goal and going through these things, trying to figure out the most trivial and easy to fix issues with the plan, often allows me to increase the likelihood of achieving a goal by 10-20% with just a few minutes of work.