Day 1 - Quotes and Thoughts

Research cultivates innovation by educating and generalising novel concepts. Understand principles before adopting them. Encourage idea flow and discussions for discovery, not ego or winning.

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Thinking a like scientist is not just a process of discovering the reasons why the solutions work but also a process of understanding how those solutions might work. - Adam Grant (Think Again)
Topics: mindsetscienceresearch

2023-2-13

  • Doing research is not just identifying the novel concepts or ideas but generalising and educating such concepts or ideas for cultivating innovation.
  • To generalise a concept and simplify it for education, it requires the deep understanding about the fundamentals of the concept.
  • To gain the fundamental knowledge, it requires to conduct experiments and learn from trial and error.

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Adopting others' principles without giving them much thoughts can expose you to the risks of acting in ways inconsistent with your goals and your nature - Ray Dalio (Principles)
Topics: mindsetprinciple

2023-2-13

  • Not just because a principle is common, you need to change your habits to adopt it. Instead, you need to understand the reasons behind it and how well it suits you. Understanding such things will help you to answer to the following question: "Is it worth for me to spend time on building a new habit that reinforce the new principle?"

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The goal is to find a way for ideas to win rather than people, so it is important to set up the jousting as a test of competing truths rather than competing egos or hierarchies. - Admin Stelzner (The Right Kind of Crazy)
Topics: team managementmindset

2023-2-13

  • If we want to create a robust team and a sustainable organisation, we will need to let ideas or feedback flow. This requires the effort of building the environment where everyone strives for growth.
  • We discuss or debate about a topic because we want to discover the unknowns based on what we have known, not to show our egos or to win the debate or the discussion.