p.16 Smart Thinking requires developing smart habits
to acquire high-quality knowledge and to apply your knowledge to achieve your goals.
p.18 The central goal of this book is to give you the tools for smarter
and more efficient thinking.
p.27 The mind is designed to think as little as possible.
p.30 The cognitive system is designed as much as possible not to think. There
are lots of tasks that you do routinely that you don't want to think about. Habits allow you to turn those tasks into automatic
routines so that you can focus your attention on more important things.
p.31 Your mind is designed so that it thinks as little as possible. Whenever there is a routine
that you do in the same way all the time, you develop a habit for it so that you don't have to think about it explicitly any
more.
p.32 Life is better when you don't have to think specifically about the most trivial and repetitive tasks.
p.33 the key signature of a habit is that it is an action you can perform automatically without
having to think about it consciously... most of the time, your habits are Smart Habits.
p.39 One sign of a habit is that you won't think about the
process of doing the behavior any more.
p.55 The mind is constantly looking to create habits.
p.58 By paying attention to some things, there were others that did not
make the cut.
p.63 What you see depends on what you know
p.67 What you know depends on what you see
p.77 Smart Thinking is the ability to acquire High-Quality Knowledge and
Applying Knowledge when you need it.
p.81 In the few minutes after a class or meeting - or even after
reading a book or article - take a few seconds or minutes to write down the main points.
p.91 A key aspect of Kepler's Smart Thinking was his interest in the question
why... Getting answers to why questions plays a key role in everyday life.
p.97 Overall, our ability to ask and answer the question why
leads us to build on the innovations of past generations to create new more sophisticated tools.
p.171 At its core, Smart Thinking does not require you to think differently
but to think about different things.
p.174 To change what you are thinking about, you
need to change the description of the problem.
p.183 Your memory did not evolve to support an accurate
playback of your life. Instead, it evolved to give you the information you are likely to need when you need it.
p.183-184 The key to solving problems is to recognize that
when you get stuck you are not calling to mind knowledge you have that might help you solve the problem.
If you have knowledge that will enable you to solve the problem, then you need to change the description of the problem
to create new cues to memory that will bring new knowledge to mind.
p.205 If you are very high in need for closure, you may settle on a solution
to a problem without exploring enough possibilities. If you are very low in need for closure, you may focus all of your efforts
on generating possibilities and fail to reach a decision.
