FleetingNote When does rationality become unreasonable? R: Psychology of Money btw., talk about it with Rui and Kacper Raszkiewicz July 2nd, 2022
Sometimes it's better to sacrifice the battle to win the war—i.e., be reasonable versus rational. A way to fight perfectionism.
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This relates personally to me, especially now when I'm new in the company and trying to implement new processes.
One instance when rationality because unreasonable is when you adopt a best or nothing approach. "Either we do it the best (determined by rationale) way, or we don't do it at all."
From personal experience, this results in situations when:
I leave a chess match because I made a stupid move, instead of playing (and learning further).
I stop doing Jiu Jitsu because I don't like how my trainer trains me. (it's unreasonable to be because he doesn't start with the fundamentals)
I try to destroy processes that work to introduce my rational process, which leave the team confused and angry.
In other words, when you have such a mindset usually everybody loses because you do nothing when you could be doing something.
Having imperfect Jiu Jitsu lessons is better than having none. Having an imperfect process is better than having none. Playing after doing a bad move is better than not playing at all.
Is it though? Elaborate later
When should you be Steve Jobs style?
Starting on your own?
Once you have track record?
I dunno
And how to do it the best?
Because it's not inherently bad. Rationality helps you get closer to the truth—this is why I am frank and rational. Rationality is basically the straightest line from question to answer, from problem to solution.
Rationality, given that everybody is inlined with it, should bring the best results because it's closer to the truth.
However, if it compromises cooperation or morale or execution in general then it starts becoming unreasonable because you actually lose effectiveness.
So the goal is to be rational and reasonable at the same time.
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But isn't trading rationality for reasonability a path to average? Should you be more firm? Think of Kobe, Michael, etc. People were afraid of them, didn't like them, but at the end of the day, these guys made them win (which was why all team members were there in the first place)
Shouldn't you leave orgs that don't strive to be the best?
What's the better approach?
Gradual.
You have to understand the curse of knowledge.
You have to win people over first, later change what they do, understand where they're coming from.
Elaborate
Btw., how does it relate to this: v85N6mvRt
[Addition] Being Rational over reasonable is like treating current science as the final answer and confusing absence of evidence with evidence of absence. Thinking something is not rational is ignoring things that might be true but are not rational to you because you don’t know them. It’s an arrogant and subjective view kn knowledge while thinking it’s objective. Work on that cuz you have this bias.