How To Avoid The Most Common Traps Of Sloppy Thinking.
- April 30, 2015
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Clearly, intelligence doesn’t mean that you are more rational or sensible. Despite their astonishing skill, surgeons can cause then endless loss of life through sheer carelessness – something as simple as forgetting to wash their hands or apply a clean dressing. In business, short-sighted thinking might involve cutting corners that eventually lead to the downfall of a company.
1. Recognise your blind spots
Spot them and take care of them.
Spot them and take care of them.
2. Be ready to eat humble pie
Accept your faults. Develop a core personality trait known as “open-mindedness”.
3. Argue with yourself – and don’t pull the punches
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes and imagining their viewpoint.That could be particularly useful when dealing with personal problems.
4. Imagine “what if…”
Use your smarts to be practical, or creative. One way to develop those skills could be to re-imagine key events. History students could write an essay exploring “What would the world be like if Germany had won World War Two?”.
5. Don’t underestimate the checklist
When wrestling with complex situations, it is easy to forget the basics. A simple checklist for pilots, reminding them of the basic procedures for take-off and landing, seemed to halve the death rate of fighter pilots during second world war.
Practice these steps, and you might just find that you start to find talents that were previously unrecognised.
Accept your faults. Develop a core personality trait known as “open-mindedness”.
3. Argue with yourself – and don’t pull the punches
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes and imagining their viewpoint.That could be particularly useful when dealing with personal problems.
4. Imagine “what if…”
Use your smarts to be practical, or creative. One way to develop those skills could be to re-imagine key events. History students could write an essay exploring “What would the world be like if Germany had won World War Two?”.
5. Don’t underestimate the checklist
When wrestling with complex situations, it is easy to forget the basics. A simple checklist for pilots, reminding them of the basic procedures for take-off and landing, seemed to halve the death rate of fighter pilots during second world war.
Practice these steps, and you might just find that you start to find talents that were previously unrecognised.
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