# Being Efficient and Effective / Result-Oriented vs. Outcome-Dependent

Being result-oriented is important as it allows you to measure your 
efficiency. But as with everything in life, most of the time it comes down 
to random events. You can make the most calculated decisions and things 
can still turn out for the worse, and vice versa. You can play the lottery 
for example and win, thinking you did the right thing. But being 
outcome-dependent is a very different mindset than being result-oriented. 
Ultimately, the outcome shouldn't matter and the only relevant factors are 
the knowledge at that point in time combined with your reasoning. We can 
learn things from an outcome such as how to optimize our workflow but it 
shouldn't affect us emotionally. When I reflect and look back at my 
decisions, I won't regret them if I did the best I could with the 
information available to me at that time. Being result-oriented rather 
than outcome-dependent allows you to achieve a very peaceful state of mind 
as it contributes tremendously towards mental stability and focus.

Evaluating your beliefs at all times is quite important as well. New 
research is being published all the time and there is no shame in 
improving your belief system to align it more with reality. As mentioned 
in the neuroscience chapters, we have the tendency of being emotionally 
attached to ideas, which limits our growth. There are studies about close 
to anything and doing research in the topics you deem important can 
greatly increase your effectiveness. You might wonder why being effective 
is so important but if it wasn't for nature being as effective for 
example, consciousness might have taken another billion years to emerge 
through evolution, if it would arise at all. Same applies to making money, 
if we could earn twice as much without any negative side-effects, why 
wouldn't we do that instead? The drive to be as effective and efficient as 
possible has been the foundation of my achievements and mastering this can 
enable anyone to do the same. This has been an ongoing process that I try 
to improve on every day.