The Cost of Not Being the Best Critical Thinker

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In order to achieve the things we want in life, inevitably we're going to have weaknesses. Steve Jobs is a really good example of someone who was exceptionally good at one thing but not others. And I think that very often that in entrepreneurship, in science, even just in life when someone seems to just be thriving, they found something that they're exceptional at and they figured out how to make the most of that thing.

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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

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