The key to logical, linear thinking is knowing what to exclude from your mental space.

逻辑与线性思维的关键是知道应该从你的心理空间里排除什么。

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Concurrency is one topic engineers notoriously get wrong, and understandibly so, because the brain does juggle many things at a time and in schools linear thinking is emphasized.

并发是程序员经常犯的错误之一，其实这也可以理解，因为我们在学校强调的是线性思维，而实际操作中则是多个事件一起发生。

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Basically, mind mapping avoids dull, linear thinking, jogging your creativity and making note taking fun again.

基本上来说，思维导图摆脱了呆板的线性思考，唤醒创造力，使做笔记又成为一种乐趣。

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Intuition is what disconnects button-downed, linear thinking.

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Yet we continue to operate as if we can magically superimpose control, accurate long-range forecasts, accurate budget projections, ever-increasing performance arrows and other products of strictly linear thinking on those complex and interwoven conditions beyond our four walls and that, somehow, it will all work out just as planned.

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