5 Pointers on How to Think Clearly
Tanmay Vora
Developing clarity in thinking is becoming even more important in a world that is constantly trying to distract you. Overload of information being pushed at us, contrasting theories about almost everything, our own unconscious biases, ego and fear hamper our ability to look clearly through the fog.
If we improve how we think, we also improve how we lead teams, develop people, innovate, solve important problems and grow as individuals.
When I read this post by Charles Chu at The Polymath Project titled “A Few Principles on Thinking Clearly”, I realized that sometimes the thing that impairs our thinking is our own ego, fears and motivations. That we are not motivated to think clearly on issues where we don’t have skin in the game. That models are linear but reality is not. That we need to think across disciplines to solve important problems.
In this post, Charles offers some principles on how to think clearly from the Czech-Canadian polymath Vaclav Smil. I encourage you to read the full post and here are my visual notes outlining the key insights from the post.
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