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“most people believe they’re making fact-based decisions, when they are, in fact, making opinion-based ones.” quote by Nat Greene — Download Open image

““most people believe they’re making fact-based decisions, when they are, in fact, making opinion-based ones.””

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“If you believe that success is inevitable, you’re less likely to work your tail off in order to achieve it. Hard problems are definitely immune to the power of belief. Simply deciding that you’ll solve something doesn’t solve it. The best problem-solvers I know hold in their head a kind of contradiction. They simultaneously hold two beliefs: They have the…

“To solve truly hard problems, you’ll need to use a method that doesn’t involve guessing in any step.”

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“Defining the acceptable and unacceptable ranges for this variable means that the problem definition is objective and immune to opinion.”

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“Embrace your ignorance. Most people try to solve problems using the knowledge they already have about a process, but it’s what you don’t know that lies between you and the solution. Often we are afraid to admit our ignorance in front of others in order to preserve our reputation. Great problem-solvers not only admit their ignorance but also embrace it…

“When a system isn’t working right, someone has to understand how it’s meant to work, at the right depth, in order to fix it.…

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“When you move down your tree, keep in mind there may be multiple variables contributing to the failure.”

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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF…

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“We need to understand what variables most directly control our primary variable by understanding the science behind how the system works.”

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“Perhaps many aid organizations make assumptions about the problem they are solving, and throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem to little…

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“The last major risk to getting good facts is our own prejudices. While we may not always test a solution based on our opinions…

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“most methods disguise the guessing stage in some fancy language, such as “determine possible root causes.” This is making a list of guesses, and at this point I hope you would read such an instruction and declare, “How the heck am I meant to do that?” Even coming up with a “hypothesis” is a guess, despite it being a scientific…

“Perhaps the most useful approach for defining the problem well is structuring it as a measurable variable.”

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