What is the hypothesis you are going to test today?

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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to Wikipedia, “An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results.”

How many of your major decisions, or minor ones, have you reviewed through the lens of experimentation? If all life is an experiment, how much of our time do we spending acting in such a manner?

There are three themes of questions: building blocks of experimentation that could and should be leveraged in our daily lives. 

  1. What is my hypothesis? What am I seeking to support, refute, or validate with this action or decision? 
  2. Based on the results of my experiment, what did I learn? What does a “logical analysis of the results” reveal?
  3. Based on the answers to the above questions, what is my new hypothesis? What lessons on cause and effect will I carry forward into my next decision or set of actions?

When you start some new project, initiative, or idea, are you seeking to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis? Do you seek to understand the results in a non-emotional and quantitative manner?

Imagine how powerful our lives would be if we chose to live with an attitude of experimentation in all of our decisions? What if everything was done through a lens of learning and growth? Test and learn, evolve, and grow.   

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