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Ask For Feedback . ‘’I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.’’ Keep The Bigger Picture In Mind . ‘’One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree – make sure you understand the fundamental principles like the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.’’ Think About Yourself Critically . “Accurate self analysis. It’s difficult to do so, since you’re too close to yourself by definition. People do not think critically enough. People assume too many things to be true without sufficient basis in that belief, so it’s very important that people closely analyze what is supposed to be true, and build it up, analyze things by the first principles, not by analogy or convention, which is actually what most people do, that makes it difficult to gain insight as to how things can be bettered. In any argument or train of thinking, you want to make sure that the underlying premises are valid and applicable, and how the conclusion reached is necessarily driven by the underlying premises and the interconnection between those premises. It’s the foundation of rational thought. “ ……… ………… …………. 18