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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 54

Don’t settle for your first answer

Most problems have more than one solution. If I’m wearing a coat and the weather heats up so I start sweating, I could cut the sleeves off the coat to cool myself down. It’s an answer, but that doesn’t make it the best one. If I thought about it for a bit longer, it might occur to me to remove the coat.

Your money problems, or your work dilemma, or the fact you and your kids keep shouting at each other, or the question of what to do with your mum now she can’t really live alone any more, also have more than one solution. And the best one won’t necessarily be the one you think of first.

The first answer you come up with is really useful, mind you. I alluded to this earlier – having a plan B is fantastic ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823