Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).
It is as if they can see ahead of the curve and understand the knock-on effects that no one else is thinking about (yet) in a positive, determined and confident way.
Instead of fantasizing about catastrophes (running out of oil) and miracles (a rapid transition to solar power), our energy thinking needs to emphasize the achievable and the incremental.
So if you haven't filed your taxes yet, but you're thinking about buying a house -- (laughter) -- you can request a six-month extension until October 15th, and claim the credit before then. (Applause.) Or if you've already filed your taxes, or you wish to do so before April 15th, you can just amend your form later this year after you've bought your home and get your money then.
Timberlake told the New MySpace (a site he co-owns) that he envisioned a few legends when he started thinking about touring with the man who is arguably one of the biggest stars in music.
To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).
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It mattered because of all the hard work and money I invested in my studies thinking a good job awaited me. (Instead I found a pile of dirty dishes and a small tip.) But it was better than being on the unemployment line collecting benefits.
Not long after that era, the newspaper industry had other forward-thinking businessmen (yes, sometimes ingenuity was a matter of economic survival).
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It may be the only instance in modern life where our thinking is so uniformly medieval (I say this in a nice way).
By staying open-minded and flexible in his thinking, he was able to move to a market niche (education) that his organization was particularly well suited for.
For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.
Most entrepreneurs (myself included) are type A personalities who are always thinking about the next big thing or problem in their companies.
When thinking of a romantic song, most think of something in Spanish (34%), followed by French (29%), English (17%) and then Italian (9%).
Many viruses are triggered when an unsuspecting user clicks on an attachment (often Visual Basic), thinking it's something nice from a friend or colleague.
He has long been famous for thinking that species appear suddenly (at least, by a geologist's standards), are stable for most of their existence, and then disappear by extinction or splitting into daughters.
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Fazle Hussain and Michael Goldshtik, of the University of Houston, in Texas, have taken this thinking much further, and built (with the help of their students) a prototype of an engine with a liquid piston.
Thinking (and the UNHCR's job) broadened under Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, who managed in his time (2001-2005) as head of the agency to breathe new life into some old buzzwords: repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation.
The first case (Chamberlain) was optimism supported by wishful thinking, as useful as buying a lottery ticket to fend off bankruptcy.
Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.
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The Nazis did catch her (thinking she was a small cog, not the linchpin of the rescue scheme) but did not find the files, secreted in a friend's armpit.
More importantly, cyber-doom scenarios were and are symptomatic of a tendency towards precautionary thinking that focuses on the possible (or merely imaginable) at the expense of the probable or already occurring.
This line of thinking ignores the principle of indirectness (or obliquity), which shows that in a complex interactive environment, a direct focus on a single goal can elicit reactions which tend to prevent the achievement of that goal.
I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.
In an interview last year, Phillipe Boisseau, head of the gas and power division for French oil giant Total (which has a bunch of JVs with Chinese companies) explained the Chinese thinking.
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Poul Engberg-Pedersen (IUCN) proposed that thinking about the energy-water-food nexus lifts sustainability from a CSR issue to the strategic business level.
This examination revealed that among consumers thinking about a mobile phone purchase over the next 90 days (January, February, or March 2013), Android-powered devices are the most popular operating system under consideration.
Another writer from the same era, Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) wrote a bestseller in 1952 called The Power of Positive Thinking.
One of my favorite web comics, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, (which has been featured before on Forbes) ran a comic yesterday that got me thinking.
Mr. Burton (1577-1650) was an English vicar and a college librarian, and his thinking was informed by both religious orthodoxy and the more secular canon of classical literature.
When you see that happen in your circle of friends or publicly (thanks to the Internet), usually your response includes thinking that the guy has stopped being a man, is overcompensating for something else, and probably should stop crying and get over it.
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