Henry Rollins: Which thinking habit do you wish you could break?

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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

Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Henry Rollins

Musician, writer and broadcaster

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.

Sean Illing, Vox, "9 questions" series, 8 April 2017 source ↗

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Fareed Zakaria Journalist and author; host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS

Wasting time reading blogs, magazines, newspapers. They have their place but they can become an addiction. And the real ways to gain understanding about issues are reading books and traveling.

Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 20 May 2017 source ↗

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009

Often, what happens in science is you got a problem and you solve it, and then there’s not much else to do and you have to move on. But the ribosome turned out to be a rather rich gold mine. Perhaps I’m a little intellectually lazy and feel like, “Why should I bother thinking about something else?” Maybe at some point, I should have thought, “I should do something different.”

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist and essayist