3D: Daily Dose of Discernment

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Creative individuals are driven to explore and learn due to their high levels of curiosity and interest.
Creative individuals are often adept at problem-solving and facing complex challenges with aplomb.
Creative individuals use their vivid imagination to enable options and possibilities that would otherwise be missed.
Creative individuals often exhibit emotional reliance and commitment, enduring hardships and rejection while producing great works of art.
Creative individuals are often adventure seekers and risk-takers who use mistakes and failures to improve their choices, habits, knowledge, and skills.
Creative individuals are driven by flexible thinking, which allows them to think outside the box and discover novel areas to explore, new experiments, and solutions.

Practicing inference involves drawing logical conclusions based on the available evidence that has been verified.
Practicing evaluation involves testing the credibility and relevance of information presented to support arguments.
Practice self-reflection by questioning your own assumptions, conditioning, preconceived ideas, preferences, and thinking processes.
Practicing analysis involves identifying main arguments, examining the evidence supporting them, and challenging the assumptions on which they are based.
Practice open-mindedness by considering the five main options or perspectives. Understand how to generate five main options from reading Discovery Demands 5TP.
Practice the basics of problem-solving by identifying systemic issues, generating alternative solutions, and testing the most effective ones. For an easy and effective system of problem-solving, please read Problem Solved! 3Rs.
Practice effective communication by stating your reasoning clearly and concisely (often using examples), and actively listening to other perspectives (often restating their points of view). Active listening is a separate skill that should be mastered.

Planners are future-oriented, with maps outlining how to achieve their goals. In contrast, reactors are focused on the present and solving crises.
Planners are forward-thinking, proactive, and strategic. In contrast, reactors are impulsive, respond to the current situation only, and are more like firefighters in the field.
Planners seek to minimize risks through preparation and foresight, including the development of contingency plans. In contrast, reactors thrive in uncertain situations, requiring spontaneity and a willingness to take risks.
Planners prefer predictability, schedules, structure, and refining processes. In contrast, reactors prefer flexibility and the ability to adapt to a changing environment quickly.
Planners excel at achieving long-term goals, maintaining consistency, avoiding crises, and continual quality improvement. Reactors excel in fast-paced, unpredictable environments that require fast and effective decisions under pressure.
Planners can over-plan and over-control, thereby thwarting creativity and adaptability, and ultimately failing to respond to unexpected changes. Reactors can lack foresight, fail to adapt structures to prevent recurring problems, and neglect to plan for adequate resources and long-term responses to actions.
Few individuals are capable of excelling at both planning and reacting simultaneously. One example of someone who did excel at both is Steve Jobs.

An optimist believes positive outcomes are possible, whereas a pessimist expects negative outcomes.
An optimist believes obstacles are temporary and can be overcome, whereas a pessimist believes obstacles are permanent and insurmountable.
An optimist uses emotions to stay confident, enthusiastic, hopeful, and positive, whereas a pessimist uses emotions to focus on apathy, boredom, cynicism, doubt, and worry.
An optimist is likely to persist until the goal is accomplished and take on reasonable risks, whereas a pessimist is more likely to give up easily and avoid all risks.
An optimist is likely to possess better problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as improved mental health and emotional resilience, compared to the average individual. A pessimist is likely to have undeveloped problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as lower mental health and emotional resilience compared to the average individual.

You can handle difficulties by deciding whether you can problem-solve them or if you need to cope with them for now.
You can handle difficulties by breaking them down into manageable pieces and steps that you can take until the road is cleared.
You can handle difficulties by seeking help, acquiring new information, learning new skills, and adjusting your responses to achieve better interactions.
You can handle difficulties when you practice emotional regulation, which does not mean denying your emotions, but rather focusing them constructively.
You can handle difficulties by focusing on what you can control and where you can make a difference, and also by asking others who can control other aspects to make positive changes where they can.

The most common mistake people make is to make anything (circumstance, event) about who and what they are (ego, self-esteem).
The second most common mistake people make is to take on the impossible burden of improving themselves by improving their ego (mental-objects).
The third most common mistake people make is taking their internal debate (self-talk, self-narrative) about what semantic-objects they should and should not be as if it had any importance at all.
The greatest mistake people make is focusing on themselves and their goals instead of God and His purposes.
Most people fail to focus on what works: making better choices, developing good habits, and continually improving their skills.