Blind Spots Quotes

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The people who would like to manipulate and use you won't tell you your blind spots. They may plan to continue using them to their advantage.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.”
― Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

“We all have blind spots – those areas for improvement and growth. As painful as it can be to admit we’re doing things we never wanted to do and saying things we never wanted to say, it is this acknowledgement that enables us to take the first step toward change. Be gentle with yourself. Be real with yourself. Take baby steps.”
― Rhonda Louise Robbins

“If there're weaknesses you don't know about but others do- your blind spots, it's embarrassing. Plus, people use them to mock you and take advantage over you and your circumstances.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.”
― Pawan Mishra

“The goddess of sex that most men had fantasized about since their teenage years wasn’t to be found in some red-light district of town or in an illicit magazine but was actually standing right next to them at work, at the library, at the coffee shop. And they were too blind to see it!”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“The people who care about you may not tell you your blind spots fearing to offend/hurt you. Open up and ask their feedback and get enlightened.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality”
― Pawan Mishra

“Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Consider the recent financial crisis and its link to faulty reward systems. President Bill Clinton's objective of increasing homeownership by rewarding potential home buyers and lenders is one example. The Clinton administration "went to ridiculous lengths" to increase homeownership in the United State, promoting "paper-thin down payments" and pushing lenders to give mortgage loans to unqualified buyers according to Business Week editor Peter Coy.”
― Max H. Bazerman

“Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.”
― Pawan Mishra

“The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key here is variety. Most of us study something specific and don’t get exposure to the big ideas of other disciplines. We don’t develop the multidisciplinary mindset that we need to accurately see a problem. And because we don’t have the right models to understand the situation, we overuse the models we do have and use them even when they don’t belong.

You’ve likely experienced this first hand. An engineer will often think in terms of systems by default. A psychologist will think in terms of incentives. A business person might think in terms of opportunity cost and risk-reward. Through their disciplines, each of these people sees part of the situation, the part of the world that makes sense to them. None of them, however, see the entire situation unless they are thinking in a multidisciplinary way. In short, they have blind spots. Big blind spots. And they’re not aware of their blind spots.
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Relying on only a few models is like having a 400-horsepower brain that’s only generating 50 horsepower of output. To increase your mental efficiency and reach your 400-horsepower potential, you need to use a latticework of mental models. Exactly the same sort of pattern that graces backyards everywhere, a lattice is a series of points that connect to and reinforce each other. The Great Models can be understood in the same way—models influence and interact with each other to create a structure that can be used to evaluate and understand ideas.
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Without a latticework of the Great Models our decisions become harder, slower, and less creative. But by using a mental models approach, we can complement our specializations by being curious about how the rest of the world works. A quick glance at the Nobel Prize winners list show that many of them, obviously extreme specialists in something, had multidisciplinary interests that supported their achievements.
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The more high-quality mental models you have in your mental toolbox, the more likely you will have the ones needed to understand the problem. And understanding is everything. The better you understand, the better the potential actions you can take. The better the potential actions, the fewer problems you’ll encounter down the road. Better models make better decisions.”
― Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

“As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!”
― Assegid Habtewold

“Ascension is the triumph of mastered emotions; a process of gaining clarity in the darkness of blind spots and struggles, allowing you to perceive with the karmic intelligence of the Soul.”
― Ka Chinery

“Who knows, you may be that close. You could be uncovering a blind spot or two away to take your career to the next height...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“IT can be an integral part of the business, by identifying the blind spots and close the gaps.”
― Pearl Zhu

“Silo thinking creates blind spots and enlarges IT-business gaps.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“It is important to challenge, debate, and learn the nature of each other through the aspect of dynamic and respectful dialogue, to close blind spots and bridge cognitive gaps.”
― Pearl Zhu, Problem Solving Master: Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problem Creatively

“Accept your flaws in order to grow in your areas of weakness. Blind spots have been known to be dangerous from ancient days, let others help as they can see you better than you do by yourself.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“If we become attuned to these fallacies, then every time we hear them - every time we hear a person attacked, an emotional appeal made, an idea rejected because it isn't perfect, or a phrase like ''we have only two choices'' - our antennae will go up. This doesn't mean that we should necessarily reject what the person is saying but that we should reason more carefully about the issue before deciding what we believe should be done.”
― Madeleine L. Van Hecke, Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

“Some people, even those with great insight are occasionally blind to things in front of their noses.”
― William Scott