○ How to think

Collection of resources improving reasoning, empathy, planning, understanding:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

~Robert J. Hanlon (Hanlon's Razor)

Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.

~ Philip K. Dick, VALIS

I don't like the word materialist because it suggests we know what the material is

~ Richard Penrose

it is only the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and then that is the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and so it goes until the world is no longer flat, electricity lights the night, and shoes are no longer tied with ribbons.

~ Godwin Baxter - Poor Things

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

~ Jon Karauker - Into the Wild

When you're explaining a concept/idea and some people don't get, keep in mind that different human brains experience thinking differently. Your brain and someone else's might not share the same thinking patterns, and it goes way deeper than differences in experience and knowledge.

All to often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, as easy standard. We justify our lack of praise by claiming that it would be embarrassing to the employee to call attention to a behavior that she sees as something fundamental What we're failing to realize is that the point of praise is not only to reinforce the behavior in that employee, but also to reinforce it in everyone else.

  • Patrick Lencioni - The Ideal Team Player