One other benefit of focusing on outcomes is that it keeps you focused. If you’re just trying to “put in a good days work every day” then you’ll probably waste a lot of days on rabbit holes that aren’t actually helping you get towards your goals. They’ll feel productive, but in hindsight they probably didn’t get you closer.
That doesn’t seem true to me. You just have to find the right process-oriented things. For example, to mitigate against the risk of getting caught in rabbit holes, you can focus on process-oriented things like “spend X hours/week thinking about what the priorities are” and “give myself Y amount of slack”. Also, outcome-oriented things suffer from Goodhart’s Law.
All of that said, I don’t feel like I have a great grasp of all the pros and cons of process vs outcome oriented thinking. Those are just things that come to my mind.
One other benefit of focusing on outcomes is that it keeps you focused. If you’re just trying to “put in a good days work every day” then you’ll probably waste a lot of days on rabbit holes that aren’t actually helping you get towards your goals. They’ll feel productive, but in hindsight they probably didn’t get you closer.
That doesn’t seem true to me. You just have to find the right process-oriented things. For example, to mitigate against the risk of getting caught in rabbit holes, you can focus on process-oriented things like “spend X hours/week thinking about what the priorities are” and “give myself Y amount of slack”. Also, outcome-oriented things suffer from Goodhart’s Law.
All of that said, I don’t feel like I have a great grasp of all the pros and cons of process vs outcome oriented thinking. Those are just things that come to my mind.