However mercurial, Jobs’ willingness to change his mind about things was a huge asset. So many execs I work with haven’t had an original thought in years, and certainly haven’t reevaluated their stance on anything.
> certainly haven’t reevaluated their stance on anything
Brings to mind the idea of "simulated thinking:"
We have so many different schema that have been loaded into our brain on how
to respond to different conversational gambits or events in our environment
then we are in fact almost exclusively acting out of habit and almost not at
all actually using the part of mind to truly, deeply contemplate what’s
happening in front of us and the proposition is that that’s a trap, that we
would find ourselves in simulated thinking it can be very, very effective in
circumstances that are what’s called ordinary like say you’re in school. That
can be extremely ineffective when you’re actually in a novel environment much
worse than just a regular old habit mind because at least habit mind is more
fluidly related to seeking mind.