Thanks for asking! This is one of the topics I planned to cover in the later cycles.
Briefly, I use “ejector seats” to refer to building into your plan rules for when you’re allowed to give up or modify it. For example, you can read Eight Studies on Excuses and try to develop and precommit to meta-rules for what kinds of excuses you accept for yourself; i.e. “Super Bowl Sunday is not a valid excuse for skipping leg day, but grandma’s funeral is.” In individual plans, you should take a moment to think about what kinds of happenings and new information you would allow to influence them, i.e. “I will make the preliminary decision to attend MIT, except if Harvard accepts me or another school gives much better financial aid; I have considered all the other factors already and will not think about changing my mind for them.”
The point is that every time you break your own rules or plans without having pre-committed to allowing the excuse, you might be left with the nagging suspicion and guilt that you were looking for excuses to give up, or that you’re not the kind of person who keeps promises. Ejector seats allow you to minimize the number of times this happens.
I will have to think and practice this a bit before writing about it, probably in the second cycle.
Thanks for asking! This is one of the topics I planned to cover in the later cycles.
Briefly, I use “ejector seats” to refer to building into your plan rules for when you’re allowed to give up or modify it. For example, you can read Eight Studies on Excuses and try to develop and precommit to meta-rules for what kinds of excuses you accept for yourself; i.e. “Super Bowl Sunday is not a valid excuse for skipping leg day, but grandma’s funeral is.” In individual plans, you should take a moment to think about what kinds of happenings and new information you would allow to influence them, i.e. “I will make the preliminary decision to attend MIT, except if Harvard accepts me or another school gives much better financial aid; I have considered all the other factors already and will not think about changing my mind for them.”
The point is that every time you break your own rules or plans without having pre-committed to allowing the excuse, you might be left with the nagging suspicion and guilt that you were looking for excuses to give up, or that you’re not the kind of person who keeps promises. Ejector seats allow you to minimize the number of times this happens.
I will have to think and practice this a bit before writing about it, probably in the second cycle.