“We filter and rank and judge. We have to. There’s just so much out there. But if you want to be a writer, you have to fight that instinct every day.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“The purpose of thinking is not to be right, but to be effective. Being effective does eventually involve being right but there is a very important difference between the two. Being right means being right all the time. Being effective means being right only at the end.” – Edward de Bono
These are some principles I hold dear.
I’m not a big fan of certainty. It leads to too much persuasion by non-rational means…