Friday, July 30, 2010

The Lost Art of Thinking, Rule #1

Steve Allen listed 101 "rules" to reason better and improve your mind in his book Dumbth. Here's #1.

Decide that in the future you will reason more effectively.

"Believe it or not, this simple step, by itself, will produce positive results, however modest. It alone obviously cannot achieve the desired effect, but it is a necessary beginning. The conscious act of will it requires narrows our concentration on the particular task.

("We must, in the end, settle for improvement rather than perfection.")

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