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82. What's Essential: Greg on the Power of Inversion: What if This Could Be Easy?
The Greg McKeown Podcast
How to Get Better at Getting Things Done by Effortless Inversion
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Karl jacobi, the nineteenth century german mathematician, developed a reputation some one who could solve especially hard and intractable problems. He learned that to do that most easily, man mus imer umcerin, which translates to one must invert always invert. To invert means to turn an assumption or approach upside down, to work backward, to ask, what if the opposite were true? Inversion can help you discover obvious insights you have missed because you are looking at the problem from only one point of view. It can open our minds to new ways of doing things. Even everyday tasks that seem too overwhelming to tackle become easier by asking 'what if this could be
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