Thinking about thinking — where the four lenses meet and learn from one another.
The other four sections — Systems Thinking, Creativity, Cybernetics, and Cognition — each draw out the lessons of a single discipline. Reflexions does something different: it assembles their insights into an integrated whole. Thinking about thinking.
The Thinking Page rests on a belief: that each of these disciplines contributes something unique to how we understand our own thinking, and that together they offer a clearer, more complete picture than any one of them alone. We live in a revolutionary time for understanding how we think. Just as our grasp of the physical world took a leap forward when people discovered that the forces holding the stars in the sky are the same ones keeping us on the earth, the different disciplines for understanding thought are discovering that they are all different sides of the same coin.
Reflexions — and the Thinking Page as a whole — exists to give that synergy a place to happen, and to spread the insights that result as widely as possible. That synergy is a milestone on the road to thinking better, as individuals and in organizations. I hope you'll come along.
— Daniel Aronson, host of the Thinking Page
The mind discounts the distant future. Two deliberate approaches close the gap, and better long-term decisions follow.
Four cards, one rule, and a trap almost everyone falls into: a hands-on lesson in looking for the evidence that would prove you wrong.