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1 " Thinking for yourself is still a radical act. "
― , Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
2 " Society teaches us that to be positive is to be naive and vulnerable, whereas to be critical is to be informed, buttressed and sophisticated. Organizations operate on this negative norm. "
3 " In exploring why it is that so few people appreciate each other directly, I discovered that the problem lies partly with the people being appreciated. They do such a lousy job of receiving. Many people are taught that to be appreciated is the slippery slope of gross immodesty and out-of-control egomania. "
4 " Doing what everyone else does, thinking what everyone else thinks is rewarded. "
5 " Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first. "
6 " Then we construct an Incisive Question to remove each of those assumptions. "
7 " statement which requires you to obey, a question requires you to think. "
8 " We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement "
9 " The most important factor in whether or not they could think for themselves, afresh, at a given moment seemed to be how they were being treated by the people with them. "
10 " In fact, to take time to think is to gain time to live. "
11 " Appreciation of someone needs to be genuine, succinct and concrete. If you fake it, they will know. If you go on and on and on, they will go numb. If you are too general, they will not believe you. "
12 " Asking for information should occur only if it is necessary for the person thinking to think well. "
13 " only when it will not interupt a successful stream of thought. "
14 " co-dependence is an addiction to pleasing people. "
15 " Co-dependence is rampant in any structure requiring obedience or conformity. "
16 " Addiction to work is one. "
17 " It is a presence defined by an absence. "
18 " Ease is the space a Thinking Environment needs in order to stay intact. "
19 " Most of the time being, with no rush, is what produces results. "
