I just want to highlight a few things I'm worried really about how much the fuzzy thinking is going on in the world you know fuzzy thinking do people just not thinking straight what we're not valuing is knowledge as a process rather than knowledge as an answer if you're an employer and two candidates come up looking for a job and you're interviewing the two candidates and you say if part of this interview I just want to ask you what's the height of the spire on this building that we're in and the candidate says oh I was just I was an architect I majored in architecture for a while and I memorized the heights of all the buildings on campus I know the height of that spire is a hundred and fifty feet 155 feet tall.
Turns out that's the right answer person came up with it in seconds that person goes away the next candidate walks in do you know the height of the spire on this building the cannon says no but I'll be right back person runs outside measures the length of the shadow of that spire on the ground measures the length of her to her shadow ratios the height to the shadows comes up with a number runs back inside. it's about a hundred and fifty feet who are you gonna hire I'm hiring the person who figured it out even though it took that person longer even though the person's answer is not as precise I'm hiring that person because that person knows how to use the mind in a way not previously engaged you realize when you know how to think it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.