Mental model · People
Circle of influence
Circle of influence: The gap between what concerns you and what you can actually affect.
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The gap between what concerns you and what you can actually affect.
Try it now
List what occupied your attention this week. Mark each as inside or outside your influence.
What to do with the answer
Move effort to the inside column, and choose deliberately how you respond to the outside one.
Where it misleads
Some things outside your influence still require attention, and the circle can be widened. It is a prompt, not a permission to disengage.
The module it belongs to
- Reflective Thinking — Examine your own reasoning
The book behind it
- Seven habits — Its big ideas, in our own words.