The question
Which thinking habit do you wish you could break?Originally asked
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.
Professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University
Checking email when I don’t know an answer.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 10 June 2017 source ↗
I’m prone to overexplaining things –- when my own understanding of them is shaky. The better I know something, the shorter my prose.
Impatience. My mind moves rapidly.
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.”
I’ve a deplorable tendency to become entrenched in my own prejudices: If I dislike an artist, an art form, or an idea (jazz, ballet, certain kinds of fiction) it is extremely difficult to get me to change my mind, and all evidence presented to the contrary will be discarded and very likely mocked. Of course, nobody suffers but me.
I read the New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane. Don’t always agree with his opinions on movies but he’s always deadly funny.
Bill Nye, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Zeynep Tufekci, Tim Harford, Dominique Dawes, Henry Rollins
Search the directory for somebody in particular.