“They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).”
About This Quote
The most important thing to success and intelligence is avoiding patterns, avoiding finding and abiding by certain logical codes that seem to emerge, what is happening is bigger than that; so the most important task is to minimize noise so as things happens you can see somewhat clearly what the move is.
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