A secret foundation of strategic thinking

Here are my notes that I made after reading "How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Farnam Street".

• Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it.

• Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.

• The best way to improve your ability to think is to actually spend time thinking.

• It does not matter how busy you are. You either find time for strategic thinking or nothing will change.

• Your decisions do the talking for your thinking.

• “It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise” — William Deresiewicz