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 African American Studies at Princeton University
Impatience. My mind moves rapidly.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 8 July 2017 source ↗
Reading too many books at the same time.
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.
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.”
Jumping to conclusions. We all create hypotheses in undisciplined fashion, and then you have to go back and be intellectually disciplined.
Winston Churchill, Fareed Zakaria, Warren Buffett, Lisa Randall, Courtney Maum, Bill Nye
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