Attitude Is Everything

 

       Starting The Week Off Right

 

 

 

Don't Believe
   
Everything You Think.
   
- Unknown -

Jim Seymour

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Good Morning,
 
Just because we think something doesn't make it true nor does it make it right.
Tom Kida in his book " Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking" lists the following mistakes which tend to influence our thinking:
  • We prefer stories to statistics.
  • We seek to confirm, not to question our ideas.
  • We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.
  • We sometimes misperceive the world around us.
  • We tend to oversimplify our thinking
  • Our memories are often inaccurate.
   I started off trying to elaborate on each but changed my mind.  I ask each of you to look at your own thinking.  Have you found any of these to be true?  Without naming names and incriminating yourself or others, if you have a good example of how one of these has impacted your thinking, send me an email.  Maybe we can use it, anonymously of course, down the road.

Have a great week.
  
Jim