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Habits, routines, and rituals allow you to put your conscious mind in more interesting places than remembering to put coins in the meter.
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207 |
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When people feel less alone, when they truly and deeply feel connected to a team, they worry much less and think creatively much more.
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225 |
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Next to resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur’s worst enemy.
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010 |
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Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.
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013 |
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Forget rational thought. Play. Play like a child.
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042 |
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Attempts to control complex systems by using the kind of mechanical, predestinationist thinking… breaking everything down into component parts, or optimizing individual elements, tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.
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068 |
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…the larger an enterprise gets, the harder it is for it to think and act as one.
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124 |
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Today, even the most clockwork of tasks… can benefit from some degree of innovation and creative thinking.
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211 |
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Attention studies have shown that most people can thoughtfully consider only one thing at a time, and that multitasking dramatically degrades our ability to accomplish tasks requiring cognitive concentration.
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223 |
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Problems arise when these [mental] models no longer reflect reality and when they inhibit creative thinking.
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247 |
