The same medicine should not be prescribed for every athlete. For some, less training is the right medicine. - David Epstein

around 90 percent of major infrastructure projects worldwide go over budget (by an average of 28 percent) in part because managers focus on the details of their project and become overly optimistic. Project managers can become like Kahneman’s curriculum-building team, which decided that thanks to its roster of experts it would certainly not encounter the same delays as did other groups.

Ed Catmull requires directors to pitch three ideas, not one.

One idea creates attachment. Three create perspective.

With multiple options, people compare instead of defend.

That is what leads to better decisions.

The labs in which scientists had more diverse professional backgrounds were the ones where more and more varied analogies were offered, and where breakthroughs were more reliably produced when the unexpected arose.