If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Interpretation
Confusion can indicate deeper awareness and critical thinking. It suggests that engagement with complex ideas requires careful consideration.
This quote by Tom Peters highlights the importance of confusion as a natural part of the learning process and critical thinking. Instead of shying away from confusion, the quote encourages embracing it as a sign that one is actively contemplating and engaging with complex concepts, rather than passively accepting what is presented.
In practice
In a workshop about innovation, this quote can be used to encourage participants to embrace uncertainty when generating new ideas.
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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