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Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway.

Parkinson’s Law states that work contracts or expands to fill the time you allot for it.

It’s when we progress from novice to amateur that we become overconfident.

In contrast with “forward thinking,” “lateral thinking” refers to any use of pre-existing knowledge in a new context. Specialists assume that new, undiscovered knowledge and technology is the key to innovation, but Epstein argues that this isn’t necessarily the case. Often, old ideas used in a new way are more valuable than cutting-edge

They were trying to turn a conceptual problem they didn’t understand into a procedural one they could just execute.

My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

In my research and reporting on change and uncertainty, I constantly found a pattern: skillfully navigating change – be it at the level of an individual, organization, community, or even an entire species – demands not ruggedness or flexibility, but ruggedness and flexibility. It’s an example of when non-dual thinking, or holding two competing

Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success