Rules make life much easier and simpler! Because of them, we don't have to solve the puzzle again every time the problem pops up again. However, a different decision-making process becomes necessary as changes in size, tastes, or environment take place. So rules, to remain effective, must change with environmental changes.
Because of both progress and environmental changes, drivers in life change, and what was familiar with one generation can become foreign to the experiences of the next generation. Likewise, the demands on the new generation create a different dynamic than what the older generation understands.
People deceive by telling lies, omitting information, denying the truth, or exaggerating information. Negotiators often make statements that are technically true, but omit important context so they can mislead the other side.
Carefully analyze the problem, identify the unknown variables, use available information to solve what can be solved, and then make educated guesses based on intuitive or actual probabilities to fill in missing pieces.
Focusing more on fault than finding solutions
Addressing a fad problem rather than a real one
Generating a lot of resistance to a law by writing it poorly
Writing too many if-then-else’s in it
Writing a law that requires a lot of coercion
Every true proverb has an equal and opposite true proverb
Time goes by much, much faster for people living on an electron (if any such thing could occur) than people on earth.
Despite all the bickering among the five blind men in the Indian fable of the five blind men and the elephant, the elephant is still an elephant. The blind men were all partially right and they were all totally wrong.
It's amazing how Mesoamericans (Americans before Europeans came over) created the world's first fully engineered plant, namely corn. Today's corn kernels do not spontaneously drop into the soil from their cobs. They have to be stripped and planted, or no corn will grow.
In science, we need a journal of the insignificant and unwanted results; the experimental results that get tossed to the side. We might learn some powerful new things since it seems that the insignificant things and unwanted results may have more gems of truth hidden in them than the big things that fit our desired or predicted results.
At our scale in nature, solid objects exist. However, at the quantum (subatomic) scale that makes up these solid objects, no such law as "solidity" appears to exist. But does it appear that way because solidity is a function of time? After all, if we slow down the passage of a year of our time to the less than a nanosecond of a subatomic particle, would we then observe that solidity then can be observed at that scale?
Verifiable information generally has greater probability of being right than nonverifiable information, but a surprising number of times the non-verifiable, "gut-instinct" information still holds an upper hand since it embraces more stuff to work from.
An accomplished musician who "feels" the music can have better understanding of how to make it work than the theorist who can explain the mathematics of music and why it works.
Slippery slope arguments tend to be misleading. Although going down the slope indefinitely of whatever is being talked about is usually catastrophically bad, there is generally more and more motivation to stop before the point of no return on that slope. With enough denial, though, you may find yourself going over the cliff even as you're claiming that the person warning you is wrong.
Pockets of influence that draw away from and hinder productivity are a problem, whether in government, business, unions, schools, among executives, workers, or otherwise. Pockets of low ambition that draw away from and hinder productivity are also a problem. Neither wealth nor poverty seem to be the problem, though. Instead, it's the blocking and hindering of vision, productivity and fulfillment within both those environments that's the problem.
Facts are what is really true, regardless of whether we believe them to be true.
Just because we can't wrap our head around a concept doesn't mean it can't be. Just because we can give a reasonable and convincing explanation of something doesn't mean the explanation is right. But truth does exist and it's to our benefit to discover and abide by it.
Ability to predict accurately can hint at how good and reliable an understanding is.
None of us will ever be all-knowing, but if we get it wrong, we or those around us can pay dearly for it no matter how pure our intentions.
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