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"General Thinking Concepts"
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"General Thinking Concepts"
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1. thinking better isn’t about being a genius. It is about the processes we use to uncover reality and the choices we make once we do.
2. I believe in the discipline of mastering the best of what other people have figured out.
3. While pontificating with friends over a bottle of wine at dinner is fun, it won’t help you improve.
The only way you’ll know the extent to which you understand reality is to put your ideas and understanding into action.
The only way you’ll know the extent to which you understand reality is to put your ideas and understanding into action.
4. Our [[Failure]]s to update from interacting with reality spring primarily from three things: not having the right perspective or vantage point, ego-induced denial, and distance from the consequences of our decisions.
5. As Confucius said, “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.”
6. Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities
7. Wrapping ego up in outcomes instead of in ourselves makes it easier to update our views.
8. The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem
8. The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem
9. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful to us.
10. Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
11. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world.
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