Episode description

WTF is a mental model? You're about to find out.

This is a special episizzle because I uploaded an interview of ME I just recorded on my friends and business partners podcast: Hustle And Flowchart, available at EvergreenProfits.com

Some of the topics covered include:

• Why you might need to take your focus off execution

• How to stop aborting your best ideas too soon

• A 4-step process to pursue the right ideas

• Balancing your internal critic with your optimist

• How to get free of “fixing problems” and find real solutions

• Using constraints to brainstorm powerful ideas

• The "Effectual Thinking" mindset that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial

• Why physics and knowledge can solve any problem

• Tactics to shift your mindset (not just woo woo stuff)

• Getting on the journey of sucking less

• Defining criteria for an idea you’ll actually see through

• Find out if you are a laser or a floodlight

• How to know if your current “problem” is really a symptom of deeper business troubles