How Conventional Wisdom can Get in the Way of Achievement

We should practice visualizing failure rather that success. Marvin Minski, the pioneer in Artificial Intelligence (AI), also said there is tremendous value in negative knowledge. For example, looking to never make mistakes. In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse,” says Colonel Chris Hadfield. For over five months or about 4,000 hours, the Canadian Astronaut sent out daily greetings on Twitter from aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—“Good morning, Earth.” Preparation is crucial for space missions, but also in life. There's a lot we can learn from astronauts about problem solving. And it's not just being able to anticipate external events and react to unexpected glitches in real time, but also avoiding personal error. Thinking in terms of what could go wrong helps us adopt the mindset that we can and should learn all the time, and the value of sweating the small stuff....

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