Some People Seek To Understand, And Some

Don't Be A Perfectionist, Because Perfectionists Often Spend Too Much Time On Little Differences At The Margins At The Expense Of Other Big, Important Things. Be An Effective Imperfectionist. Solutions That Broadly Work Well (e.g., How People Should Contact Each Other In The Event Of Crises) Are Generally Better Than Highly Specialized Solutions (e.g., How Each Person Should Contact Each Other In The Event Of Every Conceivable Crisis).

I Believe That Our Society's "mistake-phobia" Is Crippling, A Problem That Begins In Most Elementary Schools, Where We Learn To Learn What We Are Taught Rather Than To Form Our Own Goals And To Figure Out How To Achieve Them. We Are Fed With Facts And Tested And Those Who Make The Fewest Mistakes Are Considered To Be The Smart Ones, So We Learn That It Is Embarrassing To Not Know And To Make Mistakes. Our Education System Spends Virtually No Time On How To Learn From Mistakes, Yet This Is Critical To Real Learning.

People With Good Work Habits Have To-do Lists That Are Reasonably Prioritized, And They Make Themselves Do What Needs To Be Done. By Contrast, People With Poor Work Habits Almost Randomly React To The Stuff That Comes At Them, Or They Can't Bring Themselves To Do The Things They Need To Do But Don't Like To Do (or Are Unable To Do).

Know What Your People Are Like, And Make Sure They Do Their Jobs Excellently.

We Wouldn't Be Successful If We Didn't Have Independent Thinkers Who Can Argue And Then Resolve Their Arguments.