Scientific Definition
Lifetime purpose → multi-year missions → annual goals → quarterly bets → weekly actions.
Plain-English Definition
Lifetime purpose → multi-year missions → annual goals → quarterly bets → weekly actions.
Feynman Explanation
If your week doesn't ladder up to your decade, something's lying.
Core Principle
Lifetime purpose → multi-year missions → annual goals → quarterly bets → weekly actions.
Mechanisms
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Lifetime purpose → multi-year missions → annual goals → quarterly bets → weekly actions.
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Strategy fails most often at the bottom layer: weekly action that's disconnected from the top.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
If your week doesn't ladder up to your decade, something's lying.
Examples
- Stephen Covey's roles-and-goals planning; Ray Dalio's stacked principles.
- Strategy fails most often at the bottom layer: weekly action that's disconnected from the top.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Once a quarter, draw the ladder from purpose to next Monday. Cut anything that doesn't connect.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Once a quarter, draw the ladder from purpose to next Monday. Cut anything that doesn't connect.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Effort accelerates as the goal gets closer.
We act in ways that confirm 'people like me do things like this.'
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).
A problem whose solution requires people to change their values, beliefs, or habits — not just apply expertise.
Holding a different — and correct — set of tools than everyone else.
Someone who incites others to take illegal or rash action, often to expose or discredit them.
Sun Tzu's ancient treatise on strategy, deception, and positioning.
Conflict between belligerents with very different resources and tactics.
Start from the desired future and work backward to the steps that make it inevitable.
Combine extreme safety with extreme risk; avoid the middle.
Game theory adjusted for how humans actually play — including fairness, reciprocity, and limited reasoning.
Allocating finite resources across many fronts when the opponent does the same — no dominant strategy exists.