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Sometimes people can have access to the perfect set of data – and still manage to ignore it.
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…when you’re trying to gather good information and reality-test your ideas, go talk to an expert.
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…when you need trustworthy information, go find an expert – someone more experienced than you. Just keep them talking about the past and the present, not the future.
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The best ideas, it’s believed, come from… close-up sensory investigation of the situation; how can you improve something you don’t fully understand?
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Zooming out and zooming in gives us a more realistic perspective on our choices.
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Dip a toe in before you plunge in headfirst.
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Whenever possible, we should get out of the business of precision altogether.
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…[the] preference for testing, rather than planning, [is] one of the most striking differences between entrepreneurs and corporate executives.
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When people share the worst decisions they’ve made in life, they are often recalling choices made in the grip of visceral emotion: anger, lust, anxiety, greed.
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A preference for familiar things is necessarily a preference for the status quo.
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