To understand someone, one must forget their own experiences, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, knowledge and visual perspective. Knowing another’s mind requires asking and listening. The gains from getting perspective directly instead of interpreting someone’s perspective can be big. Getting someone’s perspective you not only need to listen, you need to verify […]
Harvard Business Review (Locke) Although intuition can sometimes backfire, in many cases it is a perfectly fine shortcut. It takes a surprising amount of domain-specific expertise to develop accurate intuitive judgments —approximately 10 years, according to research. And during those 10 years, repetition and feedback are essential. Eventually this repetition […]
Creativity is looked upon as a skill, or a discipline. David Usher said…. “We need to be able to visualize our creative thinking as one thing and the discipline we work in as another. We tend to marry ourselves to our chosen discipline. Once you speak the language of […]
Lao Tzu believed that a constant awareness of the patterns in nature will bring us insights into the parallel patterns in human behavior. Much of our energy is wasted in propping up our beliefs, defending them, and convincing others to believe in them so that they may become “permanent.” Once […]
Lindon Leader – I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things. Understatement is much more effective, much more elegant. We tend to perceive ambiguous, uncertain, incomplete and complete things in their simplest and most complete form. Empathizing is the initial […]
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by living with the results of other people’s thinking. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. […]
“The genesis of the great man depends on a long series of complex influences, before he can remake his society. His society must make him”. (Spencer) Rather than focus on the solitary hero snatching inspiration from the unconscious, this concept emphasizes the long, meandering course of innovation. Instead of heroic […]
Picasso had said every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. To allow a new element into our consciousness we must be able to break our habits. Habits, or conditioned responses, tend to mechanize and reduce an individual to the status of conditioned automaton. The destruction […]
Proper questioning has become a lost art. The curious four year-old asks a lot of questions— incessant streams of “Why?” and “Why not?”— but as we grow older, our questioning decreases. At work, we often reward people who answer questions, not those who ask them. Questioning conventional wisdom can even […]
How do you focus your mind, control your stress and excel under pressure? How do you work through fear, overcome defeat or adapt to adversity? With practical wisdom. Human beings can turn hardship into wisdom because we are born with the capacity for resilience. Through practice we become more resilient. […]
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