Modeling Behavior

 Modeling behavior is the only life hack you ever need to know. 

Everything that people are attempting to do someone has come before you and laid the groundwork on how to figure out how to do whatever the thing is you are trying to do. 

Think of running a marathon. People have run marathons before and you can replicate their training, diet, and daily routine regiment and with some variation (genetics apply) get similar results. 

Nearly everything in life works this way. 

Even big impossible things like colonizing space. 

What about accomplishing a first - like colonizing Mars - surely there are models - look at empire building from early civilization.

To know the model for colonizing Mars you need to break down the core elements of what it took to build some of the greatest empires. Reading history books on settling the West in America or exploring the New World.

There were lessons learned as these lessons can provide a framework for colonizing Mars.

This is of course an extreme example, but you get the point. Anything you are trying to accomplish - switching careers, building a bigger pipeline, or completing that marathon you have had on your bucket list for year look to model and study those who have been their first.