Tradeoffs

Category: Tradeoffs

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1. Validating a helpless / victim narrative vs. cutting against it.

1. Ex., you should just do the thing that will get you what you want - your excuses be damned. Makes people feel invalidated.
2. Conformity / Tradition / Security vs. Self Direction / Freedom / Novelty / Challenge
3. Benevolence / Universalism / Inclusiveness / Communal vs. Power / Achievement / Dominance / Systematicity
4. Between sources of meaning
   1. Love & Family vs. Mission & Goals
   2. Between all generators of meaning
5. Agreeableness vs. Disagreeableness
6. Introversion vs. Extroversion
7. Openness vs. Conscientiousness
8. Conscientiousness vs. Creativity
   1. Accountability vs. Creativity
   2. Measurability vs. Creativity
   3. Regimentedness vs. Creativity
   4. Consistency vs. Creativity
9. Vulnerability vs. Conviction
10. Wartime CEO vs. Peacetime CEO
11. Freedom vs. Cohesion
12. Yin (Zen, Alignment) vs Yang (Force, Effort)
13. Bias vs. Variance
14. Exploration vs. Exploitation
15. Simplicity vs. Complexity
16. Loneliness vs Freedom
17. Thinking vs. Doing
18. Authenticity vs. Self-Awareness
19. Big Picture vs. Detail Oriented
20. Seriousness vs. Playfulness
21. Literal vs. Emotional
22. Ego vs. Vulnerability
23. Conviction vs. Vulnerability
24. Action vs. Vulnerability
25. Sphere of Control vs. Vulnerability
26. Inadequacy sense vs. Understanding / Acclimation
27. Attention vs. Awareness
28. Compartmentalization vs. Integration
29. Humbleness vs. Arrogance
30. Groundedness vs. Expansive Vision
31. Stability vs Growth
32. Systemizing vs. Empathizing
33. (Thing orientedness vs. people orientedness)
34. Fox vs Hedgehog
35. High vs low expectations
36. Indoctrination vs. Ungroundedness, taking assumptions vs. questioning assumptions
37. Power vs. Empathy
38. Living in the Now vs. in the Past, Present and Future
39. Open Mindedness vs. Assertiveness
40. Judgement and Acceptance
41. Tough Love as paradoxical

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