Business Thinking Skills & Ambiguity
Channel: Ric Willmot
Date: 2012-02-03

Our education system has trained us to NOT want to be wrong. But the fear of being wrong limits our ability to think with creativity, innovation and imagination.Behavioural economics explains that we would rather be precisely wrong than moderately right.
The Chinese have two lions on pillars outside of every temple of worship. These temples are where the people go to seek wisdom and enlightenment. The names of those two lines, that you must pass through before reaching the temple, are called: "Doubt" and "Confusion".

The Chinese understand that before you can find wisdom and enlightenment you must first pass through doubt and confusion.

The lesson for us in business is that we need to become more comfortable with ambiguity; willing to sometimes be wrong; and, willing to be only moderately right when we are attempting to be innovative and creative.