reverse thinking
It starts with flipping the script on…
reverse thinking
It starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
Why I pay myself first—with my time.
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder
It’s the novelty, or the imagination that it is novel (even inversion isn’t that novel when we study it), that tends to cause the chaos. Inversion helps you explore that supposed novelty to uncover, sometimes very old, solutions.
Just Don't Be Stupid
false novelty
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
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
"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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