I’m worried really about how much the
fuzzy thinking is going on in the world
you know fuzzy thinking do people just
not thinking straight
consider this following example imagine
you have a spelling bee
this is contrived but it makes the point
there’s a spelling bee and you have to
spell the word cat ok so one student
spells it see eighty person got it right
the next person spells it k eighty
that’s wrong you got that wrong okay
third person spells it xqw you realize
that is marked equally is wrong with the
k eighty when you could argue that ka T
is a better spelling for cat than C
eighty dictionaries know this because
that’s how they spell it phonetically
and so we’ve built a system for
ourselves where there is an answer and
everything else is not the answer even
when some answers are better than others
so our brains are absent the wiring
capable of coming up with an original
thought if you’re an employer and two
candidates come up looking for a job and
this is again a contrived example and
and you’re interviewing the two
candidates and and you say if part of
this interview I just want to ask you
what’s the height of the spire on this
building that we’re in and the candidate
says oh I was I was just I was a an
architect I majored in architecture for
a while and I memorize the heights of
all the buildings on campus I know the
height of that spire is a hundred and
fifty feet
in fact 155 feet tall okay turns out
that’s the right answer
that’s the right answer person came up
with it in seconds that person goes away
the next candidate walks in do you know
the height of the spire on this building
the candidate says no but I’ll be right
back person runs outside measures the
length of the shadow of that spire on
the ground measures the length of her to
her own shadow ratios the height to the
shadows comes up with a number runs back
inside it’s about a hundred and fifty
feet who are you gonna hire I’m hiring
the person who figured it out even
though it took that person longer even
though the person’s answer is not as
precise I’m hiring that person because
that person knows how to use the mind in
a way not previously engaged you realize
when you know how to think it empowers
you far beyond those know only what to
think [Music]
fuzzy thinking is going on in the world
you know fuzzy thinking do people just
not thinking straight
consider this following example imagine
you have a spelling bee
this is contrived but it makes the point
there’s a spelling bee and you have to
spell the word cat ok so one student
spells it see eighty person got it right
the next person spells it k eighty
that’s wrong you got that wrong okay
third person spells it xqw you realize
that is marked equally is wrong with the
k eighty when you could argue that ka T
is a better spelling for cat than C
eighty dictionaries know this because
that’s how they spell it phonetically
and so we’ve built a system for
ourselves where there is an answer and
everything else is not the answer even
when some answers are better than others
so our brains are absent the wiring
capable of coming up with an original
thought if you’re an employer and two
candidates come up looking for a job and
this is again a contrived example and
and you’re interviewing the two
candidates and and you say if part of
this interview I just want to ask you
what’s the height of the spire on this
building that we’re in and the candidate
says oh I was I was just I was a an
architect I majored in architecture for
a while and I memorize the heights of
all the buildings on campus I know the
height of that spire is a hundred and
fifty feet
in fact 155 feet tall okay turns out
that’s the right answer
that’s the right answer person came up
with it in seconds that person goes away
the next candidate walks in do you know
the height of the spire on this building
the candidate says no but I’ll be right
back person runs outside measures the
length of the shadow of that spire on
the ground measures the length of her to
her own shadow ratios the height to the
shadows comes up with a number runs back
inside it’s about a hundred and fifty
feet who are you gonna hire I’m hiring
the person who figured it out even
though it took that person longer even
though the person’s answer is not as
precise I’m hiring that person because
that person knows how to use the mind in
a way not previously engaged you realize
when you know how to think it empowers
you far beyond those know only what to
think [Music]
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