Adaptive Thinking Quotes

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

All life is problem solving

Don't get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You just constantly are evaluating and learning and drawing players and coverages and talking through it. It's part of making you the player, how you want to approach the game.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

One pursues economic theory in too extreme an extent he is likely to be in trouble; you have to consider the reality and blend what you observe as reality with an ingredient of theory, and a little, just a little bit ahead of the time, then you are likely to succeed.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.

When you lose you try to learn from your mistakes and build on them.

I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.

Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

I've learned pretty quickly you better be able to adjust daily.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.