What were we thinking about when we had all that extra time?

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"We had no idea he was thinking what we were thinking, " said Mr Howard, echoing a Tory election slogan.

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"Quite rightly, our children and grandchildren will ask what we were thinking about, and consider that we were deluded in exchanging that which nature gave us for a power installation that would not even light up Bonar Bridge, " he wrote in his letter of objection.

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In our own group we were helped enormously by a chairperson who frequently asked each of us to reflect on what we were thinking.

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"It was surreal in that we were clearly thinking, we knew what we had to do, " he said.

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So we both decided to go make a pretty radical shift and go to business school, so we could be exposed to new ways of thinking and hopefully invent a new model to do what we were passionate about that could leverage content, but also have a sustainable revenue model.

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From kindergarten on we were taught what can be described as prediction reasoning, a way of thinking based on the assumption that the future is going to be pretty much like the past.

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