A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A thinker treats actions as experiments, viewing success and failure as answers to questions.
- In plain terms
- Thinkers see life as experimental inquiry.
- What can you take from it?
- Adopt an experimental mindset toward decisions.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is experimentation inappropriate?
- How do we handle ambiguous outcomes?
Another view
Not all actions can be reduced to experiments.
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