Look for the second right answer.
Interpretation
This quote encourages seeking unconventional solutions rather than settling for the first viable option.
Roger Von Oech's quote suggests that when faced with a problem or decision, it's beneficial to look beyond the obvious or initial solution. This approach encourages creativity and open-mindedness, prompting individuals to explore alternative perspectives that may lead to greater insights and potentially more effective outcomes.
In practice
This quote could be used in a brainstorming session to encourage team members to think outside the box.
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
i never learned anything while i was talking.
Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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