
Good ideas come from good thinking. Sometimes, going for a walk helps.
An error of reasoning is a fork in the road. Each error takes you on a different journey, with consequences. Some unintended. Some by chance delightful and unexpected.
I help you create good ideas.
This starts with good thinking - the building blocks of innovation with purpose.
Good thinking includes an absence of reasoning errors.
This is what I mean by that…
What is good thinking?
A thought precedes an idea or action, sometimes an emotion. But we are human - emotions typically come first and dictate the thought.
It can be hard to know when our emotions are guiding our thoughts, and vice versa, even with a rear view mirror to see the path we’ve taken.
Connecting multiple thoughts creates a sequence, often culminating in “an idea”. If there is a logical sequence, this idea can be quality tested and refined. Like a map grounded in reality.
Without a logical sequence under-pinning them, ideas are like arrows shot from a bow into the woods. We may hit a target by chance. We may waste a lot of arrows. We may not know if we have missed or hit, and we can’t work out why.
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Good thinking is the kind of thinking that scales to solve problems effectively and efficiently.
Good thinking is evidenced based. It leans on empirical data over assumptions and models. It rigorously seeks out its own blindspots, and finds people and insights that see those blindspots clearly in their field of vision. Good thinking often comes from “range”.
Good thinking does not manifest as a single good idea. It is a logical flow or sequence of ideas, hypotheses, speculations, that can be tested in the real world, validated, or rejected.
Good thinking is more like a living organism that learns and grows over time. In part, its survival depends on what doesn’t become. Get outside, go for walks, be inspired. As much for what it makes you, as what it stops you becoming.
What isn’t good thinking? Good thinking isn’t bad thinking, which consists of errors of reasoning
Check out: 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World (external link) for all the ways ideas, and the thinking behind them, can go wrong.
