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Which thinking habit do you wish you could break?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

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Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
inversion frequently will solve problems which nothing else will solve. And in life, unless you’re more gifted than Einstein, inversion will help you solve problems that you can't solve in other ways.
Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗
Mark Cuban Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 13 May 2017 source ↗
Adam Gopnik Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist
My very wise and politically savvy 17-year-old daughter says I get too emotional about political issues. I think she’s right. She knows that if she sees me race across a room, I have just read something about Trump. Turning ideas into feelings is the thing an essayist is supposed to do, but political punditry should probably be more detached.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 16 September 2017 source ↗

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