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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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Whitney Cummings Comedian and writer; co-creator of 2 Broke Girls
Overthinking. I tend to conflate the amount of time spent on something with how good it is. Sometimes intuition is better than proof, and gut instinct better than hours of “work.”
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 15 April 2017 source ↗
Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. I do not at all excuse myself for this foolish neglect of opportunities procured at so much expense by my parents and brought so forcibly to my attention by my Preceptors.
Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗
Henry Rollins Musician, writer and broadcaster
Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, "9 questions" series, 8 April 2017 source ↗
Bill Nye Science communicator and television presenter
Jumping to conclusions. We all create hypotheses in undisciplined fashion, and then you have to go back and be intellectually disciplined.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 17 June 2017 source ↗

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