reverse thinking
Great originals are great procrastinators, but they don’t skip planning altogether. They procrastinate strategically, making gradual progress by testing and refining different possibilities.
from Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
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in reality, the biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation—it’s idea selection.
from Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
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Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively open-minded.27 It requires searching for reasons why we might be wrong—not for reasons why we must be right—and revising our views based on what we learn.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
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psychologists find that one of the hallmarks of an open mind is responding to confusion with curiosity and interest.30 One student put it eloquently: “I need time for my confusion.”31 Confusion can be a cue that there’s new territory to be explored or a fresh puzzle to be solved.32
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
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- So, if talking to strangers seems daunting to you, it might help to think that by doing so, you could give someone the gift of being seen.
from Why you should talk to strangers | BPS by Gillian Sandstrom
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- During these early periods, late bloomers try and then quit so many jobs that the people around them might conclude that they lack resilience. But these are exactly the years when the late bloomers are developing what psychologists call “diversive curiosity”—the ability to wander into a broad range of interests in a manner that seems to have no rhy... See more
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
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Handke’s tiredness is not “I-tiredness”; it is not the tiredness of an exhausted ego. He calls it “we-tiredness” (15). I am not tired “of you,” as he puts it, but rather I am tired “with you”
from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
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we-tiredness
- "The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
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- It starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
from Why I pay myself first—with my time.
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