Are You 3 Minute Thinker ?

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Take this Quiz to Discover

Answer TRUE or FALSE:

We're all born skilled thinkers.
Thinking requires a weekend, a hammock and a pitcher of lemonade.
Breakthrough ideas come about mostly by accident.
Feelings usually prevent good thinking.
Smart people are the best thinkers.
Too much thinking leads to inaction and too little thinking leads to superficiality.



Answers:
FALSE. While we are all born with a basic ability to think, that ability is rudimentary compared to what can be achieved by someone who develops their thinking as a true skill.
FALSE. Thinking -- that is skilled thinking -- is a focused, deliberate activity that is done in short, concentrated bursts.
FALSE. While some of the great ideas have indeed come about by accident (e.g., an apple hitting the head of Isaac Newton), most ideas come about through focused, deliberate thinking.
FALSE. While this may be true for an unskilled thinker, part of the skill of thinking requires detaching oneself from one's ego and separating the feelings from the thinking.
FALSE. In fact, smart people are often the worst thinkers. They often use their knowledge to defend a position instead of being willing to re-think or take a new position. That's one of the reasons children exhibit so much creativity potential.
FALSE. If done skillfully, thinking can be done in 3-minute bursts. Sometimes more than one such burst is required. Often the best decisions can be made in only a few such bursts. In either case, the purpose of skilled thinking is always to get a result.

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