Success Isn’t About Goals. It’s About How You Think
If you’re feeling stuck in your career, burned out by life, or quietly afraid to make your next move—know this: it’s not because you’re lazy, unmotivated, or lacking discipline. It’s because the mental models you’re using to make decisions were never built for the version of life you’re trying to create.
You’re operating on inherited defaults—beliefs passed down from outdated schooling, risk-averse employers, and a culture obsessed with short-term validation. The result? A life that looks “fine” on the outside but feels misaligned, hollow, and capped. The cost of using the wrong mental frameworks isn’t just emotional. It’s financial, too—impacting your earning potential, leadership growth, and long-term autonomy.
This article introduces you to eight mindset models for success that actually work. They’re simple, strategic, and powerful—mental operating systems used by world-class thinkers like Charlie Munger, Jeff Bezos, and Alex Hormozi. But this isn’t theory. These are the exact frameworks I used to go from $25,000 in debt and clinically depressed to five promotions in seven years, tripling my income, and launching a business that now helps thousands of professionals rebuild their own paths.
You’ll learn how to:
Make decisions your future self would be proud of
Escape the trap of short-term comfort and long-term regret
Replace average behavior with high-leverage habits
Use AI to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be
Most people overcomplicate success or stay stuck trying to feel “ready.” But readiness is a byproduct of momentum—not the prerequisite. The real unlock is rewiring how you think before chasing what to do next.
Let’s start with the belief that derails most smart professionals: the idea that your current mental model is working just because you’re surviving. It’s not. Here's why.
You’re Not Broken—You’re Just Using Outdated Mental Software
There’s a silent lie baked into most modern careers: that if you’re stuck, it’s your fault. That you just need to “try harder,” “stay positive,” or “be more grateful.” But trying to force momentum without addressing the operating system underneath is like installing the newest app on a 2009 iPhone. It crashes—not because the app is bad, but because the system wasn’t built to run it.
High achievers often mask stagnation behind busyness. You’re productive. You meet deadlines. You get promoted. But you still feel like something’s off. And that friction isn’t random—it’s misalignment between your ambitions and the outdated mindset running the show.
It’s not a motivation problem. It’s a model problem.
Why Most Self-Help Advice Doesn’t Stick
Self-help culture is filled with positive thinking, morning routines, and productivity hacks. But as research from Harvard Business Review points out, tactical behavior change fails without the internal models to support decision-making under pressure.
Motivation may start the engine, but it’s mental models that keep it running.
Most professionals aren’t struggling because they don’t know what to do. They’re struggling because they don’t know how to think differently about what they do. Default settings like perfectionism, fear of public failure, and chasing short-term validation override long-term growth—unless you upgrade the frameworks underneath.
The “Stuck but Smart” Paradox
You can be ambitious, educated, and talented—and still feel behind. I know because I lived it.
At 28, I had five promotions on my résumé. I also had $25,000 in debt, a deep sense of burnout, and zero clarity about what I actually wanted. Like many high-functioning professionals, I was surviving off momentum and expectations—disconnected from purpose, strategy, or any real internal compass.
That’s the paradox: You’re not failing because you’re incapable. You’re failing because your brain is still optimizing for old rewards—external praise, reactive decisions, and shallow success.
The Real Root Cause of Burnout, Stagnation, and Fear
Burnout isn’t always about overwork. It’s often about wasted effort. Doing too much of the wrong work for too long—without clear alignment to a future that excites you—leads to what psychologists call meaningless achievement. And it's rampant.
According to Gallup’s global workplace report, nearly 60% of workers feel emotionally detached from their jobs. That’s not a time management issue—it’s a mental model failure. When you optimize your career around safety and approval rather than impact and direction, stagnation is inevitable.
The same goes for fear. Most people aren’t afraid of failing. They’re afraid of failing in public. But as explored in the “Invisible Audience” effect in psychology, people don’t think about you as much as you think they do. You're not under a microscope. You’re under your own limiting beliefs.
Framework #1 – The Tomorrow Test
“What decision would fulfill the me of tomorrow?”
We often make decisions based on the emotions and pressures of today. The inbox is full. The paycheck just hit. Someone else’s success is triggering us. So we react. We chase urgency instead of alignment. But the fastest way to derail long-term success is to optimize for short-term comfort.
The Tomorrow Test is a mindset reset. It asks one powerful question: What choice today serves the version of me I want to become tomorrow? Not the version that’s tired, overwhelmed, or seeking approval—but the one that’s clear, decisive, and future-focused.
Why Future-You Makes Better Decisions
Behavioral science backs this up. Studies in future self-continuity—the psychological connection between present and future self—show that people who visualize their future selves vividly are more likely to make better financial, health, and career decisions. In short, the more real your future self feels, the more responsibly you act today.
But most professionals avoid this exercise. Why? Because imagining the future forces you to confront gaps—between what you want and where you are. And if you don’t know how to bridge that gap, the discomfort leads to avoidance.
The Tomorrow Test flips that fear into strategy. You don’t need to predict the next 10 years. You just need to act in favor of the next version of you.
Build Your AI-Powered Future Self Roadmap
Here's the tactical move: pair the Tomorrow Test with AI. Tools like ChatGPT and Claude aren’t just for writing emails—they’re decision accelerators. Instead of guessing what your future self might need, you can build a custom roadmap in minutes.
Try this:
Visualize your future state. One year out. More income? A leadership role? A healthier relationship?
Write down the tangible results you want (e.g., “Make $30K more,” “Manage a team,” “Be off anxiety meds”).
Define your current baseline.
Prompt an AI assistant with:
“Here’s where I am now. Here’s where I want to be. Here’s the timeframe. What skills, habits, and decisions would close this gap?”
The result? A reverse-engineered growth plan built on your actual goals, not someone else’s checklist.
This isn't theory. It’s execution powered by clarity.
Tactical Exercise: Future-State Mapping
Take 15 minutes. Grab a notebook or digital doc. Split it into two columns.
Column A: Where I am today
Column B: Where I want to be 12 months from now
Be brutally honest. Fill in areas like income, health, relationships, leadership, and learning. Once complete, ask: What habits does Column B require that Column A isn’t doing yet? That’s your upgrade list.
Now filter every tough decision through this lens: Does this action move me closer to Column B—or just keep me busy in Column A?
The Tomorrow Test doesn’t just help you make better choices. It forces you to own your trajectory. Most people drift. High-performers decide. The difference isn’t talent—it’s intentionality.
Framework #2 – Hard Now, Easy Later
“Which path is harder in the short term, but better in the long term?”
Most people make decisions like they’re avoiding a workout—choosing comfort now and hoping ease will compound into fulfillment. It won’t. Success doesn’t come from easy choices. It comes from hard ones made consistently before they’re convenient.
This mindset model asks you to do the opposite: lean into the harder short-term path, knowing it pays off in ways comfort never will. If it feels uncomfortable but aligned, it’s probably the right move.
The Power of 1% Better (and the Trap of 1% Worse)
Here’s the math most people ignore: improving by just 1% each day doesn’t make you 365% better in a year. It makes you 3,778% better—thanks to the power of compounding.
On the flip side, getting 1% worse each day doesn’t leave you close to baseline. It leaves you at 2.5% of your original self. Think about that. If your mindset, discipline, or standards erode by just a fraction daily, you lose 97.5% of your effectiveness in one year.
This isn’t exaggeration—it’s exponential math.
James Clear’s Atomic Habits highlights this principle: habits are interest earned on behavior. But while everyone loves the “1% better” mantra, most aren’t willing to endure the temporary friction that growth demands.
Why Short-Term Comfort Is Long-Term Career Poison
Choosing easy now—scrolling instead of studying, venting instead of acting, settling instead of asking—feels justified in the moment. But over time, it becomes a pattern. And patterns become identity.
The workplace rewards consistency, not occasional intensity. That’s why professionals who tolerate discomfort—learning a new skill, asking hard questions, saying no to mediocre opportunities—end up with more leverage, more options, and more peace.
Discomfort compounds. So does regret. Choose which one you want to live with.
Practical Tip: Reverse Your Gratification Loop
The default setting for most professionals is: easy now, stress later. Flip it.
Next time you're faced with a choice, ask:
“Which of these options will stretch me today but create peace tomorrow?”
“If I do the harder thing now, what long-term freedom will it create?”
Write it down. Say it out loud. Build the muscle.
And here’s the kicker: just like with the Tomorrow Test, you can AI-enable this model. Ask:
“Given this decision, which option aligns with long-term growth, even if it feels harder now?”
AI can’t feel discomfort—but it can strip away emotion and mirror clarity back to you.
If the average person avoids discomfort and stays stuck, what happens when you reject the average path altogether?
Framework #3 – The Grandfather Frame – Alex Hormozi
“If 80-year-old me were living my life today, what would I feel grateful for—or regret?”
Most career decisions focus on gains: more money, better titles, stronger skills. But very few professionals stop to ask a more sobering question: What will I wish I had done differently when it’s too late to change it?
The Grandfather Frame flips goal-setting into legacy-thinking. It forces you to zoom out and re-evaluate your choices through the lens of future gratitude and avoidable regret—two of the most powerful emotional drivers for long-term clarity.
Why Regret Is a More Powerful Motivator Than Vision
Studies from Cornell University show that people are more haunted by missed opportunities than by failed actions. In fact, when older adults reflect on life, they most often regret the risks they didn’t take, not the ones that didn’t pan out.
Jeff Bezos famously used this model when deciding whether to leave a secure hedge fund job to start Amazon. He called it the Regret Minimization Framework—asking, “When I’m 80, will I regret not doing this?”
The Grandfather Frame is similar but more emotionally grounded. Imagine that your 80-year-old self wakes up in your current life—with your youth, your energy, your options still intact. What would they cherish? What would they change?
This isn’t about fear. It’s about perspective.
Use Mortality to Reframe Your Priorities
Too many professionals wait for wake-up calls—burnout, layoffs, divorce, illness—before questioning their path. But perspective doesn’t have to be triggered by pain. It can be chosen.
This mindset invites you to do what bestselling author Oliver Burkeman calls “cosmic insignificance therapy”—stepping back from your current problems to reconnect with what actually matters. When you zoom out far enough, ego fades and clarity emerges.
Try this: Imagine your time is limited (because it is). What decisions today would make you proud if tomorrow you couldn’t make any more?
Reflective Exercise: Ask Your Elders or Your Future Self
If visualizing your 80-year-old self feels abstract, do something more direct:
Ask a grandparent or older mentor, “What do you wish you had done sooner?”
Or use voice journaling to “speak” as your future self. Record answers to:
What was I proud I had the courage to do?
What did I waste too much time on?
What trade-offs were actually worth it?
Then use those insights to recalibrate your daily decisions. This isn’t just self-help—it’s strategic life design.
The Grandfather Frame doesn’t tell you what to do. It reveals what you’ll most regret not doing. And when you know that, action becomes non-negotiable.
Framework #4 – The Average Path Filter
“What would the average person do? Do the opposite.”
Here’s the truth most people don’t want to admit: average is engineered. The default path—college, corporate job, debt, burnout, occasional vacation, slow promotion, shallow purpose—is not an accident. It’s a template. And it works… if your goal is survival.
But if your goal is fulfillment, freedom, or high-impact work, then doing what most people do is a liability. The Average Path Filter exists to help you intentionally break from default decisions—not with rebellion, but with clarity.
The Statistical Trap: Debt, Depression, and Default Decisions
Let’s talk numbers. According to data from the Federal Reserve, over 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly 77% carry some form of debt. And Gallup reports that a majority of professionals feel disengaged at work.
These aren’t edge cases. These are averages.
And yet, many career decisions—how we spend, what jobs we chase, how we define success—are modeled after those same people. It’s not that the average person is wrong. It’s that the average system isn’t built for long-term autonomy. It’s built for compliance.
How to Build an Anti-Average Life
The first step is awareness. Ask yourself:
“Where am I following someone else’s formula instead of my own?”
“What decisions am I making out of fear, comfort, or social expectation?”
“Do my daily choices reflect what I actually want—or what’s just normal?”
Then apply the Average Path Filter: In this moment, what would the average person do? Identify it. Then do something different—bolder, deeper, more uncomfortable, more strategic.
This isn’t about being contrarian for its own sake. It’s about refusing to outsource your future to a system that wasn’t built with your unique goals in mind.
Audit: Spot and Reject “Normal” Thinking
Run this quick diagnostic across five areas of your life:
Career – Are you optimizing for title or trajectory?
Money – Are you trading hours for dollars without leverage?
Learning – Are you consuming content or mastering skills?
Time – Are you reacting to your calendar or designing it?
Relationships – Are they default by proximity or chosen by alignment?
Wherever you find “normal,” question it. If it’s built on someone else’s success metrics, it may not serve yours.
The Average Path Filter teaches you to think independently. And independence is the foundation of strategic advantage.
But what happens when your decisions aren’t just about you? When success requires influencing others?
Framework #5 – Incentive Alignment
“Which decision is in their best self-interest?”
Most people try to persuade, negotiate, or collaborate from their own perspective. It’s natural—but it’s ineffective. If you want to influence outcomes, drive decisions, or lead effectively, you need to answer a different question: What’s in it for them?
Incentive Alignment flips the spotlight. It forces you to understand the motives of others before asserting your own agenda. Whether you’re navigating career growth, resolving conflict, or making high-stakes decisions, this framework helps you align logic with human nature.
Influence 101: Everyone Acts in Their Own Interest
This isn’t cynicism. It’s realism. Behavioral economists like Daniel Kahneman have proven time and time again that most decisions—personal or professional—are driven by perceived self-interest. Even seemingly altruistic acts are often tied to deeper emotional or social rewards.
Charlie Munger, longtime partner of Warren Buffett, said it best: “Show me the incentives, and I’ll show you the outcome.”
If you can decode what someone really wants—not just what they say—you unlock leverage. Your manager wants to look good. Your client wants to feel safe. Your colleague wants recognition. When you understand this, your decisions become mutually beneficial instead of one-sided.
Apply This in Negotiations, Leadership, and Love
Let’s say you’re going for a promotion. Most people lead with “Here’s what I want.” Smart professionals lead with, “Here’s how I make my boss look like a star.”
Why? Because your boss’s success is tied to their team’s performance. When you win, they win. If they’re a strong leader, they’ll return the favor. And if they don’t? You’ve exposed a misalignment that’s worth walking away from.
This model applies everywhere:
In partnerships, ask: “What problem am I helping them solve?”
In interviews, ask: “What does this hiring manager really care about?”
In relationships, ask: “What would make this person feel seen, heard, and supported?”
When you prioritize their self-interest without sacrificing your values, you earn trust faster and build deeper influence.
Mental Flip: From Conflict to Collaboration
Next time you feel tension with someone—personally or professionally—try this:
Assume they’re acting in their own best interest
Identify what that interest might be
Find the overlap between their goals and yours
This reframe doesn’t just defuse conflict. It creates alignment. And aligned interests are exponentially more powerful than coerced outcomes.
Incentive Alignment is one of the most underutilized strategic tools in high-performance careers. It’s not manipulation. It’s mutual optimization.
But before you overcomplicate how to apply this—or any other framework—let’s talk about one that simplifies everything.
Framework #6 – Occam’s Razor, Career Edition
“The simplest solution is usually the best one.”
Complexity is seductive. It makes us feel smart, strategic, and important. But in most cases—especially in high-stakes careers—complexity is a trap. It wastes time, dilutes focus, and creates fragile systems. The better play? Simplify until it works.
Occam’s Razor is a centuries-old principle: among competing explanations, the one with the fewest assumptions is usually correct. Applied to career strategy, it means this: if you’re choosing between options, start with the one that requires less drama and more clarity.
Why Overthinking Kills Execution
There’s a reason why some of the most effective professionals follow the “rule of least resistance” when building workflows, presenting ideas, or making decisions. It isn’t laziness—it’s leverage. Because simple scales. Complex breaks.
In one Harvard Business Review study, leaders who simplified strategic plans (instead of overloading them with contingencies and metrics) drove significantly higher performance and employee engagement. Why? Because clarity unlocks action.
Overcomplication is often a disguise for fear—fear of missing out, of being wrong, of not appearing smart enough. But most of the time, the obvious answer is the right one. You’re just afraid it’s too easy.
Your Career Doesn’t Need to Be Complex to Be Impressive
Your impact doesn’t come from convoluted strategies or endless pivots. It comes from solving real problems reliably and clearly.
Ask yourself:
“Am I over-engineering this decision because it feels safe?”
“Am I hiding behind complexity instead of making a move?”
“If I had to solve this with 20% of the time and budget, what would I cut?”
Your job is not to be the most complicated person in the room. It’s to be the clearest.
Exercise: Simplify One Key Workflow or Decision Today
Pick one area of your professional life that feels chaotic—your morning routine, your task list, a team workflow, or a strategic plan. Now run it through this filter:
What’s the core outcome?
What’s essential to that outcome?
What am I doing that doesn’t move the needle?
Eliminate the noise. Build from the essentials. Your future self—and your team—will thank you.
When you embrace Occam’s Razor, you stop chasing complexity and start building durability. Because simple isn’t just elegant. It’s executable.
And sometimes, what you need most isn’t another strategy. It’s perspective.
Framework #7 – The Best Friend Mirror
“What would I tell my best friend to do in this exact situation?”
When you’re overwhelmed, stuck, or doubting your next move, clarity often feels out of reach. You’ve analyzed every angle, overthought every outcome, and still can’t decide. That’s when it’s time to step outside yourself—and into the role of advisor, not actor.
The Best Friend Mirror is simple, but powerful. If your closest friend came to you with the same exact problem, what would you tell them to do?
Now—do that.
Why We’re Better at Advising Others Than Ourselves
There’s a psychological name for this: Solomon’s Paradox. Studies show that people are significantly more rational, strategic, and emotionally balanced when making decisions on behalf of others than for themselves.
It makes sense. Your own decisions are clouded by fear, ego, and uncertainty. But when it’s someone else, the emotional noise drops—and logic rises. You see more clearly. You cut faster. You coach better.
This is why top performers often rely on external mentors. Not because they’re incapable, but because they need someone to reflect their own best thinking back to them—without the fog.
The Best Friend Mirror lets you do that for yourself.
Visualization Drill: Use Empathy to Break Mental Blocks
This framework only works if you actually feel the shift. Here’s how to make it real:
Close your eyes. Picture your best friend—standing in front of you, visibly anxious, frustrated, or stuck.
They describe your exact dilemma in their words. Their job. Their finances. Their fear.
Hear yourself respond—calm, honest, supportive, clear.
Now open your eyes. Write down the exact advice you just gave them. It’s yours.
That emotional distancing is often all it takes to break paralysis and re-engage your sense of ownership.
Practical Use Case: Financial Decisions, Job Leaps, and Mental Health
This model saved me from financial spiral. Years ago, I had already helped multiple friends map their debt payoffs, negotiate salary increases, and regain control over their budgets. But I was $25,000 in debt myself—burnt out and avoiding reality.
When I finally asked myself, “If my best friend were in this exact situation, what would I say?”—the answers were obvious. I just hadn’t given myself the same grace or strategic lens. The moment I did, everything changed.
Use this framework anytime emotion overwhelms logic. Especially with:
Career moves
Pricing and negotiating
Burnout recovery
Relationship boundaries
When in doubt, coach yourself like you would coach someone you care about deeply.
The Best Friend Mirror strips away fear and reminds you: You already know what to do. You’ve just been too close to see it.
But if closeness is your enemy, so is visibility.
Framework #8 – The Invisible Audience Fallacy
“What would I do if no one saw me fail?”
Most people aren’t held back by a lack of skill. They’re held back by the imagined spotlight. The fear that every misstep, pivot, or false start will be judged. But here’s the hard truth: no one is watching as closely as you think they are.
The Invisible Audience Fallacy is the belief that everyone is paying attention to your life with the same intensity you are. They’re not. And when you realize that, you reclaim your freedom to act.
The Myth That Everyone’s Watching You
Psychologists call this the spotlight effect—our tendency to overestimate how much others notice our appearance, behavior, or mistakes. In a famous study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants were asked to wear an embarrassing T-shirt in a crowded room. They predicted that nearly half of the people would notice. In reality, only 23% did.
This applies to your career, your business ideas, your job search, your experiments, your failures. You are the main character only in your own head. Everyone else is too busy playing the lead in theirs.
And yet, we let this imaginary audience paralyze real action.
How to Stop Letting Judgment Drive Your Choices
Ask yourself:
“Would I still do this if no one ever knew I failed?”
“If this decision happened in private, would I make it faster?”
“Who exactly am I afraid of disappointing—and why do they hold that power?”
Most of the people you’re afraid of aren’t paying attention. And many of them wouldn’t even remember your failure a week later. So why let their imagined opinion shape your real life?
You don’t need approval to act. You need alignment.
Reclaiming Power: Make the Move Anyway
Here’s your mindset shift:
Fear of failure doesn’t kill dreams. Fear of being seen failing does.
But once you accept that most people aren’t watching—and the few who are likely aren’t thinking about you for more than 30 seconds—you’re free to move without apology.
Take the leap. Launch the offer. Leave the job. Start the conversation. Make the decision that matters for you, not the version of you someone else might be constructing in their head.
You now have eight mindset models—each one designed to help you make sharper decisions, faster progress, and a deeper impact. But mental models are only valuable if applied.
Build a Mental Operating System That Actually Works
Success doesn’t come from working harder. It comes from thinking better. You don’t need more hacks, habits, or hustle. You need a sharper operating system—a set of mental models that govern how you make decisions, filter information, and navigate uncertainty.
What we’ve covered isn’t fluff. These eight frameworks are the same tools used by high performers across disciplines—from Fortune 500 execs to elite athletes. More importantly, they’re practical. They help you build a career that’s intentional, not reactive.
Here’s the full stack:
The 8 Models, Rewired for Execution
The Tomorrow Test – Make the decision your future self will thank you for.
Hard Now, Easy Later – Short-term discomfort compounds into long-term freedom.
The Grandfather Frame – Zoom out. Regret reveals what really matters.
The Average Path Filter – Default choices lead to default outcomes. Choose intentionally.
Incentive Alignment – Understand their self-interest to influence with clarity.
Occam’s Razor (Career Edition) – Simplify until it works. Then execute with speed.
The Best Friend Mirror – Step out of your own bias and coach yourself clearly.
The Invisible Audience Fallacy – No one is watching as closely as you think. Move anyway.
Each one helps you clear a different form of fog—emotional, social, strategic, or psychological. But together, they create something more powerful: an internal decision-making engine that can be trusted under pressure.
Create Your Decision Dashboard: A Daily Habit
This isn't about memorizing eight concepts. It's about internalizing them. Try this:
Pick one mental model each week.
Apply it to one real-life decision—big or small.
Reflect on what changed.
Repeat.
Within two months, you’ll notice less stress, sharper action, and fewer regrets.
And if you're using AI tools to support your work, even better. These models pair perfectly with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Let the machine reflect your logic back to you—but make the final call with clarity and intention.
Identity Drives Inputs, Inputs Create Outcomes
At the core of every decision is identity. These frameworks don’t just help you act differently—they help you become someone different. Someone who takes ownership. Someone who moves with strategic depth. Someone who stops playing by the rules of average and starts building on purpose.
Because once you upgrade your mindset, your career, income, and impact tend to follow.
Action Plan: Rewire Your Thinking Today
Reading about mental models is one thing. Embodying them is another. You don’t need a full life overhaul to get started—you just need one decision made differently. One reframe. One upgrade. That’s how you begin to shift from autopilot to intentional action.
This isn’t about willpower. It’s about systems. And your mental operating system is the first one that needs an update.
Do This Now: Apply a Single Model to a Current Decision
Choose one decision you’ve been avoiding—career, financial, personal—and run it through a mental model:
Feeling stuck? Use The Tomorrow Test: Which option would future-you thank you for?
Afraid of failing? Use The Invisible Audience Fallacy: What would you do if no one knew?
Feeling overwhelmed? Use Occam’s Razor: What’s the simplest way to solve this?
Keep it simple. Don’t overthink it. Let the model guide your clarity.
Reframe: From “What If I Fail?” to “What If I Stay Stuck?”
Most people stay where they are not because they lack opportunity—but because they fear judgment, uncertainty, or loss of control. The better question is: What is the cost of staying where I am?
Fear of failure is valid. But regret for inaction lasts longer. According to Psychology Today, the majority of long-term regrets are tied to missed chances—not failed attempts.
Use fear as data. Then move anyway.
Empowerment Close: Your Life Is a Product of the Questions You Ask
The quality of your life will reflect the quality of your questions. These eight frameworks are those questions—tools designed to help you think with more courage, clarity, and control.
You’re not waiting for permission. You’re not behind. You’re upgrading your system so you can lead from the inside out. If the old way of thinking got you here, something new has to get you there.
Start with one decision today. One model. One move.
Then do it again tomorrow.
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