If You’re Too Busy to Think, You’ll Spend a Large Chunk of Your Life Correcting Mistakes

How you think determines what you think

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Good thinking improves judgment.

Thinking through both small and big problems is how we minimise risks, make better long-term decisions.

Schools don’t teach us how to think — we have to figure that out ourselves. It’s an essential part of living a good life. So, it pays to make time to improve how you think; your future self depends on it.

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas Edison said.

People who think well do better in life — they think through the first, second and third-order consequences of their decisions. They figure out what could go wrong in the long term and stay off those paths.

“It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” Charlie Munger once said.

Poor decision-making leads to many other decisions that waste time, resources and energy. A single wrong decision can have life-changing consequences — your future self will spend even more time…