"...stupidity is the cost of intelligence operating in a complex environment...[Stupidity:] overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information...When it comes to overloading our cognitive brains, the seven factors are: being outside of your circle of competence, stress, rushing or urgency, fixation on an outcome, information overload, and being in the presence of an “authority.” Acting alone any of … Continue reading How Not to Be Stupid
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Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames
[Roughly paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me] take your ten year life plan and ask, Why can’t I do this in six months? -Peter ThielTim Ferris, "Tools for Titans." New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 The point of the exercise of imagining a time frame twenty times shorter is to see … Continue reading Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames
