{"id":848,"date":"2008-10-07T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/avoid-the-zero-sum-mind-trap\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T02:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:59:16","slug":"avoid-the-zero-sum-mind-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/avoid-the-zero-sum-mind-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the Zero-Sum Mind Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In life, few things are truly zero-sum. A zero-sum game has winners and losers. If you believe that in order to make $100, someone else needs to lose $100, that\u2019s zero-sum. While there are often tradeoffs in life, in most situations having a winner doesn\u2019t mean there needs to be a loser.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I think it\u2019s easy to fall into seeing problems as zero-sum. I call this a mind trap, because once you start seeing problems as zero-sum, it\u2019s hard to solve them without painful costs. If you believe financial success means your family life needs to suffer, then you won\u2019t notice solutions that allow you to be rich and happy at the same time.<\/p>\n

Zero-Sum Thinking is the Enemy of Self-Improvement<\/h2>\n

Self-improvement is building something from nothing. It could mean going from poor to wealthy, isolated to social or unhealthy to fit. When you\u2019re done building, you should be more than when you started. If you view a problem as zero-sum, however, then you\u2019re cut off from those solutions. Every attempt to build improvements requires that you tear down something else.<\/p>\n

Income is not Zero-Sum<\/h2>\n

Money can be deceptive because it looks fairly zero-sum. In order to buy something, I need to spend money. I lose $15 for a meal, while the restaurant gains $15. Somebody wins, somebody loses.<\/p>\n

But money isn\u2019t zero-sum. Although the amount of currency might stay the same, that\u2019s just a medium of trade. In reality, value is being created through each trade. In the above example, I\u2019ve gained a meal and the world has gained whatever it was I did to earn the $15 to pay for that meal. The sum is greater than zero.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, if you look at money as being zero-sum, you\u2019ll focus on the wrong parts. If you\u2019re evil and selfish, you may try to steal or swindle to get money. If you\u2019re nice, but uninformed, you may never try to sell yourself and any value you offer because you don\u2019t want to take people\u2019s money. But if you think\u00c2\u00a0from a\u00c2\u00a0nonzero-sum perspective, then you\u2019re able to focus on providing value so you can contribute while being able to feed yourself.<\/p>\n

Life isn\u2019t a Trade-off<\/h2>\n

Money is a simple example, but there are many other places where the zero-sum mind trap can lurk. One of these is the belief that for every improvement you make in one area of life needs to come at the cost of everything else.<\/p>\n

Someone who sees life as being zero-sum might hold back on an ambitious project, because they\u2019re worried that it will take away from their relationships, health or other pursuits. While there might be some smaller trade-offs, I\u2019ve often found that investing yourself into a big project gives you the motivation and enthusiasm to improve elsewhere. I really started working on getting in shape once I got into a big project. The drive to work on the project created the need to work on my energy levels and physical health.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying there will never be sacrifices, just that zero-sum should never be the default perspective. Always look for the synergies and combinations, where something is being built without something else needing to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Strengths don\u2019t Create Weaknesses<\/h2>\n

A common interview question for a potential employee is to ask the person to list one strength and one weakness. The goal of this exercise is to see if the person has self-awareness (and to avoid people who give BS answers like, \u201cmy biggest weakness is that I work myself too hard…\u201d). However, implicit in the question is that to have a strength, a person also needs to have a weakness.<\/p>\n

Strong communication skills does not mean that you need to be bad at math. Being able to work alone and focus on individual tasks doesn\u2019t mean you need to be shy. Being good at chemistry doesn\u2019t make you worse at history.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many people look at strengths and weaknesses as if it were zero-sum. There are probably people who are better than me at almost everything I do. They are more sociable, have better technical skills and are more productive. Their biggest weakness might be better than my biggest strength. However, the language of skills tends to create the picture that everyone is equal, just with a few random dials turned up and a few turned down.<\/p>\n

While this picture of equality might be nice, it\u2019s also limiting. If you see every strength as creating another handicap, you won\u2019t train yourself. The truth is, most people spend very little attention to self-education and building skills, so many people are all weakness and little strength.<\/p>\n

If you view the problem as building skill instead of trading strengths and weaknesses, you\u2019ll get a lot more done.<\/p>\n

The Default Perspective Should Be Building<\/h2>\n

You\u2019re going to have a default perspective for life, no matter what you do. People need prejudgements. Although prejudice has a nasty connotation, pre-judging things are absolutely necessary for thinking. If you needed to carefully review everything before forming an opinion (if this were even possible), you\u2019d never get anything done. Still, it\u2019s better to pick a good default than one that cripples you.<\/p>\n

I think the best default perspective is one of building. This is where the sum is greater than zero. Making an addition to one area doesn\u2019t damage another. In many cases, when you build, the added structure in one section can actually make it easier to improve another. Although some rare situations in life may be truly zero-sum, I don\u2019t think this is a good place to start.<\/p>\n

Whenever you start looking at the tradeoffs, or viewing one improvement at the cost of another, stop yourself. Step back and ask yourself if this is the best way to look at the problem. How would the situation look if the opposite were true: that you could eat and have your cake at the same time? Even if there is a choice, when you start with a nonzero-sum perspective you\u2019re more likely to find solutions that let you win without forcing you to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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