All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.
I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.
Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without going through deliberate analysis. Intuitions depend on the patterns we have acquired. Insight is about gaining new patterns.
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because. . . I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond. " "If only we had a captain here.