Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

All right, welcome.

So today I'm going to help you solve a big problem, the problem that you have with solving problems.

And the problem that you have when trying to improve most every area of your life and business. Here's the problem that you have with solving problems, and the problem that you have when

trying to improve most every area of your life and business. Here's the problem. When faced with

a problem, our tendency is to favor solutions that involve adding something, when often the

best solution to solving the problem is subtracting something from the existing element or situation.

This glitch in our cognitive wiring is called the additive bias, the tendency to solve

problems through addition, even when subtraction is the better approach.

This is the reason why societies find themselves swimming in rules, regulations, red tape,

procedures, processes, the glut of bureaucracy, and the random stop signs

in odd locations.

In the history of the United States, only one constitutional amendment has ever been subtracted.

It was in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, better known as prohibition, banning the manufacturing and sale of

alcohol in the United States. That's it. One subtraction, and it was so that we could drink freely.

Yet, at the same time, there have been 27 constitutional additions. If you ask, why do we have

this tendency to add more than to subtract, even though subtraction

is often the better path?

And so you know how deeply ingrained this is as a cognitive bias for you so that you

know how hard you're going to have to fight against it.

Let me explain it for hundreds of thousands of years.

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