The predominant type of thinking in today’s world is very closely allied to immediate action and consequently is greatly impoverished. Action drives out thought. Our objective, as 80/20 thinkers, is to leave action behind, do some quiet thinking, mine a few small pieces of precious insight, and then act: selectively, on a few objectives and a narro

Many businesspeople find that they get excellent connected intuitive periods just by taking a little think-time. Gay Hendricks in his book The Corporate Mystic recorded the results of interviews with many corporate CEOs, who said that simply spending some time thinking every day helped greatly. Many of them had a remarkably similar approach of taki

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind—Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less, Guy Claxton,