The question
Which thinking habit do you wish you could break?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 13 May 2017 source ↗
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.
I question everything. This is also my greatest intellectual habit.
Impatience. My mind moves rapidly.
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.”
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