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The founder of IBM required that there be sign on every office wall that said, think, whenever they had a problem to deal with in the early days, someone would point to the sign to remind his co-worker that the more they took time to think carefully about the subject under discussion, the more likely they were to come up with proper solution or decision.
Thinking is the hardest work of all, which is why most people avoid it at all costs.
There are those who think. There are those who think they think. And then there is the vast majority who would rather die than think.
Good thinking is hard work. It must be learned and practiced over and over if you are going to truly plumb the depths of your mental powers.
Fortunately, whatever you do repeatedly soon becomes a habit. Once it become a habit, it functions easily and automatically. Everything is hard before it is easy. This definitely applies to new habit formation.