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I always ask aspiring business people: How do you beat Bobby Fischer, the renowned chess champion of the 1970’s? The Answer: Play him at anything but chess. This excerpt is from the second chapter of Seymour Schulich’s book, Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons. Schulich is a self-made billionaire. Via The Learning Factor 
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There's a passage in Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science that captures three decades of research on human judgment. "The mind overestimates vivid dangers, falls into ruts, and manages multiples pieces of data poorly. It is swayed unduly by desire and emotion and even the time of day. It is affected by the order in which information is presented and how problems are framed."
In this "news-feed" era, there's simply too much information. And as long as Google exists, it will be harder and harder to say "I don't know," even though the feel of not knowing--those vexing moments when we can't think of the answer--is the critical last step of problem-solving. Instead of pushing through a mental impasse, we pull out our phones and search for information, even though more information can often detract us from making an accurate judgment. It's a frustrating, self-perpetuating cycle. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
September 17, 2014 6:25 AM
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George Lianos's curator insight,
September 18, 2014 6:29 PM
An interesting phrase..."The mind overestimates vivid dangers...it is swayed unduly." It is important for us to consider all sides of an argument. Opinion is just that. One hypothesis is that we don't need to acknowledge good as it probably won't hurt us (except for an excess of chocolate or alcohol or the like:) ). However, our freeze, flight and/or flight mechanisms are tuned to react to what our thinking patterns and belief structures tell us are dangers. Our judgement and decision making is based on our thinking patterns, beliefs and motivations, which are derived from our memories and experiences, and probably in part our DNA. So, what is dangerous to one, may or may not be dangerous to another. Self-awareness is one of the key's to this puzzle. How is your judgement in certain circumstances? |
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