Look for the second right answer.
Interpretation
This quote encourages seeking unconventional solutions rather than settling for the first viable option.
Roger Von Oech's quote suggests that when faced with a problem or decision, it's beneficial to look beyond the obvious or initial solution. This approach encourages creativity and open-mindedness, prompting individuals to explore alternative perspectives that may lead to greater insights and potentially more effective outcomes.
In practice
This quote could be used in a brainstorming session to encourage team members to think outside the box.
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't.
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.