reverse thinking
It starts with flipping the script on…
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.
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“procrastinate strategically”
"So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term."
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
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
It seems odd to look at achievement through this lens, not as the thing the newspapers tell us it is, but – very often – as a species of mental illness. Those who put up the skyscrapers, write the bestselling books, perform on stage, or make partner may, in fact, be the unwell ones. Whereas the characters who – without agony – can bear an ordinary... See more