Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking

INTRODUCTION

7 Fatal Flaws

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN

It’s 2005. I am seated in a corporate conference room on the top floor of an eight-story building in southern California, surrounded by 12 highly skilled bomb technicians from the Los Angeles Police Department who have been hand-picked and gathered to address a complex challenge regarding new methods and approaches needed to respond to bomb calls in the new age of everyday terrorism. They received their training at the same Kentucky facility that trains all bomb technicians in the United States, regardless of military or paramilitary branch.

The problem is as wicked as a problem could possibly be: how to handle fluid, ...