Pragmatic Thinking & Learning

A series of quotes and paraphrases from Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt.

• Only remember things that matter. Keep the rest stored outside of your brain.
• Make time to allow for your thoughts to marinate.
• Shut your eyes and focus on breathing for ten minutes, three times a day.
• Learn to pay attention.
• The most important thing we need to learn is to manage focus.
• Imagine yourself writing, designing and coding successfully: groove your mind for success.
• Imagine your success.
• Give yourself permission to fail: it’s the path to success.
• Explore, invent and apply in your environment – safely.
• Allow for a ton of iteration and failure.
• Always consider context. Everything is connected.
• Keep practicing in order to remain expert.
• Cultivate intuition.
• Harness your experience.
• Realize the importance of context and of observing situational patterns.
• Learn by synthesis as well as analysis.
• Attractive things are easier to use.
• Rewire your brain with belief and constant practice.
• Add sensory experience to engage more of your brain.
• Lead with your right brain, follow with your left.
• Write freely, revise sober.
• Create a shitty first draft.
• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
• Extend ideas past there breaking points.
• Step away from the keyboard to solve hard problems.