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While the fast processor is glib and entertaining… the slow processor… is often the more profound thinker and the more original.
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What your mind is thinking about without your knowing is the source of your best ideas. The unconscious is like a great incubator.
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As is always the case when toxic emotions bubble up, attention loses the flexibility required for high-quality thought.
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The greatest danger of being overwhelmed is not that you will fail to meet your goals, but that you will fail to think at your best and give birth to your best ideas.
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To come up with the best ideas, people need time not only to stop and think, but also to fiddle around, to play with what they’ve got…
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Today’s world provides us with too much data and not enough thought.
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What separates the great innovator from the mere data gatherer is the ability to stop gathering data and think about what has been gathered.
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Increasingly, we have grown unable to linger. But it is in lingering that we do our best thinking and connecting.
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If we want to be as happy as can be, and if we want to preserve our position in the world, we will do so by thinking harder and feeling more deeply, not frantically trying to put in ever more hours.
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Business at its best is play. It is about deep thinking, imaginative thinking, thinking of what no one else has thought of. The people and organizations who can do this are the ones who get rich.
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