reverse thinking
- " You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fullerfrom Throughlines
baja added 5mo ago
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
baja added 1mo ago
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
baja added 3mo ago
- "So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term."
baja added 5mo ago
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
baja added 1mo ago
- 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
baja added 3mo ago
- If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
from No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software by (Not Boring) Software Inc.
baja added 5mo ago
- "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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“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
from On the Usefulness of Photography by Simon Sarris
baja added 6mo ago