Why You Should Know Understand Cause and Effect Work In Life
One of the most vital laws
to understand, in order to exercise wisdom in life decisions,
is the law of cause and effect. Understanding how cause and effect work can
make you foresee, anticipate, predict, strategize, influence and shape things
so you will have a better chance of the end state, or at least your
preparedness for many situations and activities.
Whether it's planning
for a vacation or planning to do anything else, a proper understanding and
appreciation for the nature of cause and effect will help you be more
successful.
For instance, if you're
planning a vacation, but you know everyone else is planning to drive the same
day and time you plan to drive, and that this will create more traffic and more
delays, you have foreseen something based on cause (many people off for the
holidays) and effect (many trying to travel at the same time.)
Then, your foresight of
this cause and likely effect can help you to better anticipate and predict what
could happen, and then plan things in a way where you won't be stuck in
traffic, for example, or otherwise be at a disadvantage.
For Every Cause, There
is Corresponding Effect
Understanding cause and
effect will help you live your personal and professional life better, so you
can better prepare and shape your future and make your life the way you want it
to be.
I'm not going to spend
too much time talking about cause and effect here, because many others have
written about the topic already. What I will say is this - learn all you can to
become good at understanding and predicting cause and effect. Then apply it to
your life in smart ways.
Know how things work,
and what causes what, or how effects-based results are achieved. This will
serve you well in life. If you missed the other rules that are so vital to
achieve positive results and success in life, just take a look at various
articles at this blog.
How to begin to Master Cause and
Effect in Life
This is not some
profound "lesson in mastery" here. The concept for mastering this
principle is quite simple, as it should be. This is achieved, I have found, in
the following way:
- Seek to understand what causes something and what the results of things are
- Keep asking "why" until you find what the root cause of something
- Tie cause and effect together and then find ways to prevent issues within the causes
So if you're going on
vacation, for example, figure out the cause and effect of what would impede
traveling. First, start with what's called a problem statement, such
as: "Why is Holiday Travel So
Slow?"
Then, list everything you
can think of, read about or others have to say about it, and try to find the
most core root cause of it. Maybe you determine this:
- Everyone is traveling all at once, causing traffic congestion and slow-down
Then ask, "what can be
done, so when I travel, I won't run into this issue?"
- Discover the best options for where to travel
- Discover the most and least busy paths and routes to these options
- Discover the best and worst times to travel within these routes
- Make a plan to travel to the nest option with the least busy routes and best times
Just ensure you don't
travel through more dangerous parts, as a trade-off for time. Cause and effect typically involve trade-offs within the decision process. You must therefore perform
what's called risk management, to wither accept or overcome any disadvantages.
Using the traveling example, this system of thought also tells us that we should
always put people's safety above other factors, such as time and convenience. This means a faster route might not be smart, or it is too risky, or dangerous.
This example relates
to understanding cause and effect. Experiment with it, and use proper risk
management principles to apply it correctly, for the least risk with the most
gain, in your decisions.
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