If you want to get ahead in your life, you must question everything. Do not get too comfortable with what you already know.
To know more, to relearn what you already know, you must question everything.
Because, according to Danny Warshay, ‘Overfamiliarity can cause us to miss what in retrospect seems obvious.’
‘Our enthusiasm for solving problems can cause us to converge too early on a potential solution, rather than forming a portfolio of options.’
‘We rely too heavily on ‘Corporate Immune Systems,’ which reject not only actual threats but also valuable innovations that compete with existing ways of operating.’
‘We suffer from fixedness- a cognitive bias or a mental block against using something (e.g., an object, an idea, a service) in a new way- which often inhibits our ability to see solutions to a problem.’
‘In a creative process, we tend to add things, which often makes products more complicated, rather than substract things, which often yields simpler and better solutions.’
‘Our personal and organizational resistance to failure limits our ability to learn, iterate, and improve, and it reduces our ability to think big.’
‘To find and recruit team members, you may be tempted to mine your network of close contacts, yet you are better off tapping your weak ties more than your strong ones.’
‘Even in diverse teams, many focus on what they share in common, rather than leveraging the full range of diverse expertise and insight available.’
Source:
Danny Warshay (2022). See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success
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