Productivity and Success
"Can these be combined?"- My question
In the last two posts I wrote about Success and Productivity. I summarized these two with these two equations.
Success= Skill*Action
Productivity= Wisdom * Action
Immediately one should note that Action is common to both. It is obvious that without Action one can not be productive or successful. So what happens if we solve the second equation for Action:
Action= Productivity/ Wisdom
and plug that result into the first equation to obtain a new relationship:
Success= Skill * Productivity / Wisdom
Interesting!
What does this equation teach us? To increase our chances of success one needs to obtain greater Skills and then to be Productive applying them. As the first two equations taught us their effect is greater the greater they are together.
So what effect does wisdom have being on the bottom? It would imply that the smaller the wisdom the greater the success and the greater the wisdom the smaller the success. This threw me for a loop. How can that be? Well I started thinking about the effect of wisdom on initial success and ultimate success.
Initially wisdom is in short supply so any success seems great. This often occurs when one is learning a new skill and trying to apply it. The results are better than expected.
But as one obtains success wisdom also increases. Then the formula suggests that success is small. Which makes sense that the success as we get more successful occurs in smaller doses.
All this makes me rethink that the final formula is in terms of rate of success:
Rate of Success= Skill*Productivity/ Wisdom
Today's question is:
"What is your rate of success?
"Can these be combined?"- My question
In the last two posts I wrote about Success and Productivity. I summarized these two with these two equations.
Success= Skill*Action
Productivity= Wisdom * Action
Immediately one should note that Action is common to both. It is obvious that without Action one can not be productive or successful. So what happens if we solve the second equation for Action:
Action= Productivity/ Wisdom
and plug that result into the first equation to obtain a new relationship:
Success= Skill * Productivity / Wisdom
Interesting!
What does this equation teach us? To increase our chances of success one needs to obtain greater Skills and then to be Productive applying them. As the first two equations taught us their effect is greater the greater they are together.
So what effect does wisdom have being on the bottom? It would imply that the smaller the wisdom the greater the success and the greater the wisdom the smaller the success. This threw me for a loop. How can that be? Well I started thinking about the effect of wisdom on initial success and ultimate success.
Initially wisdom is in short supply so any success seems great. This often occurs when one is learning a new skill and trying to apply it. The results are better than expected.
But as one obtains success wisdom also increases. Then the formula suggests that success is small. Which makes sense that the success as we get more successful occurs in smaller doses.
All this makes me rethink that the final formula is in terms of rate of success:
Rate of Success= Skill*Productivity/ Wisdom
Today's question is:
"What is your rate of success?
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