HABITS are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine.
“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” William Wordsworth said...
“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind”...
“But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ”
She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one.
A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
All of us work through problems in ways of which we’re unaware, she says", NYT, 04.05.08