Being open-minded is critical

Being open-minded to new ideas is critical for a continuous path of exceptional success.

The initial solutions I devise for a very formidable ambiguous problem are almost always wrong.

I might feel confident that my solution is right at the time, but then hours later, I think up some critiques on my proposed solution and realize that it is unideal based on fundamentals I wasn't previously thinking of.

You can only get to the better solution after challenging your idea with every critique you can think of.

(As a personal example today, I realized that groundbreaking and more effective solutions that I would provide to my client/employer would, yes, be unconventional, but those solutions might not be wildly unconventional. So, I removed the "wildly" in my prior tagline, "I devise wildly unconventional solutions that even experts couldn't for greater ROI.".

And before that, the title and tagline that I have promoted myself as has varied wildly over time. It has always stayed true to providing ideation for "Complex Problems", but has varied wildly in the phrasing to try to be more accurately understood by others.)

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