Has it ever occurred to you that the smartest guys think in opposites. Check out today’s podcast. For example take the guy who packaged the batteries I just bought on line. They’re totally encased in plastic so thick that I had to cut if with a pair of wire cutters. It was essentially a plastic battery chastity belt. But when I dug the batteries out and put them in the flashlight, they didn’t work. I wanted to send them back, but the invoice from the guy who sold them says, “All returns must be in original packaging.” Smart guy. He thinks in opposites. Thinking in opposites changed my mind about the guy at the drug store who sold me a bottle of cotton with a few Tylenol pills in the bottom. Instead of getting torqued about the big bottle and the tiny bunch of pills I started thinking…maybe I could make a nice warm winter coat out of that big ball of cotton, then I wouldn’t catch cold, and I wouldn’t have to buy any more Tylenol. I’ve got to learn to think in opposites all the time. For example, will everything east of the San Andreas fault eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean?
