Improving Thinking
The best way to improve the ability to think is to spend time for thinking. The problem is we want thinking to be easy and it’s often not. Easy thinking carries a high cost.
Easy thinking means taking a few minutes here and there, getting the gist of a problem, and making a decision. Hard thinking is understanding the problem, understanding the variables and the nuances, thinking through the second and third-order effects, and often understanding that a little pain now will make the future a lot easier.
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