To Fix Your Problems, Find the Root Cause

It’s much too easy to deflect responsibility

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
3 min readOct 27, 2021

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Photo by Rutger Heijmerikx on Unsplash

Do you play pool? I sure don’t. But I know enough about the game to use it as a metaphor for the hidden reasons we don’t do what we say we will.

The object is to get balls into pockets using a big stick. However, you can’t just hit the balls into the pockets with the stick directly, you first…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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