10x Thinking

Numbers are impatient teachers. 10x Thinking gives you the figure first and the explanation later. That is usually the right order.

Strip away the number and the idea is this: life punishes vagueness. A figure forces you to say exactly how much, exactly when, exactly who. Once you have said it, the work is half done, because the argument is now with reality and not with your mood.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

The old NCERT textbook, boring cover and all, has outlived a hundred motivational posters. Clarity is the only pedagogy that never goes out of fashion.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.