Cause & Effect

About This Talk

When something goes wrong, it’s tempting to treat the effect. Chris uses health as an example to show how results, good or poor, trace back to daily habits. He asks listeners to act like a private investigator, follow each effect back to its cause and treat that, so they can become better architects of the life they want.

Key Ideas

• Every event in our lives starts with a cause that creates an effect, the way health habits shape our health.
• We often get caught up in the moment, which is the effect, and treating the effect alone changes nothing.
• Trace an effect all the way back to its cause and treat that; the effect will naturally follow.

“Treating the effect doesn’t do anything. You have to go back all the way to treat the cause.”