- We overestimate our capabilities as individuals and underestimate what we can accomplish by our actions.
Moral: Most of us will never win a nobel prize in medicine! However, you don’t need to be the inventor of a vaccine to drive a sick person to the doctor.
- We overestimate what can be done in a day and underestimate what can be done in a year.
Moral: Give yourself time to accomplish your dreams, but commit to tracking your progress over time.
- We overestimate the importance of the things we lack, and underestimate the usefulness of what we have available to us.
Moral: If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. It is a bad workman that blames his tools.
- We overestimate the significance of rules/doctrines and underestimate the importance of knowing and accepting who we really are.
Moral: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
- We overestimate the importance of specialization and underestimate the importance of balanced general knowledge.
Moral: Computers are far better than humans at solving complicated problems with clearly defined pathways to answers, but they are helpless in the face of ambiguous problems. Its an ambiguous world.
Lastly, read the first one again!
Happy New Year!!