None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
Invert, always invert.
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.
Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.
Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
Ideas control the world.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
A feeling is not a fact.
The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
