{"id":2603,"date":"2010-12-17T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/5496a3a46c300648"},"modified":"2010-12-17T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:23:22","slug":"gonna-wash-those-thoughts-right-outta-my-head-nashuatelegraph-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/gonna-wash-those-thoughts-right-outta-my-head-nashuatelegraph-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonna wash those thoughts right outta my head &#8211; NashuaTelegraph.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just begun to read the book when there it was, right on the bottom of page 5: \u201cYour brain is most intelligent when you don\u2019t instruct it on what to do \u2013 something people who take showers discover on occasion.\u201d I was floored. None other than Nassim Nicholas Taleb had confirmed what I always suspected. There is value in shower thinking. <\/p>\n<p> Not surprisingly, more than a few of the aphorisms in Taleb\u2019s book are brilliant. At the least, most will cause you to stop, put the book down, close your eyes, and think. Some may make you want to run to any other person in the room to share it with them, in the hope that an interesting discussion might ensue. If nothing else, Taleb\u2019s latest may be the ultimate bathroom book for thinkers.<\/p>\n<p> Since this is a business column, here is one of Taleb\u2019s many aphorisms that relate to business: \u201cIn science, you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.\u201d Try that one out at your next Cambridge cocktail party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just begun to read the book when there it was, right on the bottom of page 5: \u201cYour brain is most intelligent when you don\u2019t instruct it on what to do \u2013 something people who take showers discover on occasion.\u201d I was floored. None other th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}