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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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.
The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."
Beware of the person of one book.
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