Quotes About Clarity

PRINCIPLE 1: SIMPLICITY How do we find the essential core of our ideas? A successful defense lawyer says, "If you argue ten points, even if each is a good point, when they get back to the jury room they won't remember any.

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us.

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our

By identifying and enshrining your core priorities, you make it easier to resolve present and future dilemmas.

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

The ambiguity in the goal is allowing rationalization to creep in.

Concreteness is an indispensable component of sticky ideas.

The Rider has to be jarred out of introspection, out of analysis. He needs a script that explains how to act, and that's why the successes we've seen have involved such crisp direction.

Rule #1. Simpler Is Better: Round with Enthusiasm.

Rule 2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.27

By using the miracle scale, you always have a clear idea of where you're going next, and you have a clear sense of what the next small victory will be. You're moving forward, and, even better, you're getting more confident in your ability to keep moving forward.

Rule #2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.

schemas enable profound simplicity

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

simple" is finding the core of the idea.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

If you are leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change. Granted

And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Moments of insight deliver realizations and transformations.

as soon as people know what the intent is they begin generating their own solutions.