- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Tools for thinking
- Author:: Farnam Street
- Link:: How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught - Farnam Street (fs.blog)
- Source date::
- Finished date:: 2021-12-28
Good reference for Refusing to stand on your own feet.
Stay on the fucking bus (Four Thousand Weeks).
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw…
Making good decisions take time:
Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time.
The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, and the better they are, the slower they write
And people end up really busy:
Busy people spend a lot of time correcting poor decisions. And because they’re so busy correcting past decisions, they don’t have time to make good decisions.