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# On identifying your options
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/on-identifying-your-options/
- Published: 2021-02-08T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-08T07:59:59.000Z
- Description: Two modes, limitless options.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Discipline

When facing an obstacle or critical issue, best entrepreneurs and innovators are able to leverage causal and effectual thinking concurrently:

![Casual and effectual thinking (illustration based on work by Sarasvathy)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2021/01/On-identifying-your-options.png)

Casual and effectual thinking (illustration based on work by [Sarasvathy](https://www.effectuation.org/?page%5Fid=207&ref=pesec.no))

Causal thinking focuses on the end result—objective—and working out different pathways—tactics, activities, measures—to reach it.

Effectual thinking focuses on taking stock of what you currently have—resource, know-how, talent, insight—and imagining what else you could achieve with those.

There is no either/or with these two thinking modes; it is about combining these two to generate the best options for your situation.