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The Art of being Smart

Make problems easier to solve. Turn complicated problems into simpler ones. Eliminate everything except the essentials. Break down a problem into its components but look at the problem holistically. Draw a picture of the problem. Put down on a paper the key factors and their relationship. Try to approach complex tasks by first disposing of the easy decisions. Be problem-oriented. Not method-oriented. Use whatever works. Why? Because the result is what matters, not the method we use to arrive at it. Look for good enough solutions appropriate to the problem at hand. Not perfection and beauty.
Make fewer and better decisions. Why? Because it forces us to think more on each decision and thereby reduces our chance of mistakes. It's just too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions.

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do." Often we try to get too much information, including misinformation, or information of no use to explain or predict. We also focus on details and what's irrelevant or unknowable and overlook the obvious truths. Dealing with what's important forces us to prioritize. There are often just a few actions that produce most of what we are trying to achieve. There are only a few decisions of real importance.

More information doesn't equal more knowledge or better decisions. And remember that today, we not only have access to more information, but also misinformation. "The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false". "It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital." Turn off the noise or what's irrelevant and look at the big picture. Ask: Why am I doing this? What really matters? What is important for what I want to achieve? Will more information affect my decision? Don't collect data randomly. Start with why the particular information is needed in the first place, then go through it smartly.

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