They made the big mistake of thinking they could seize its border with a relatively small force.

他们犯了个大错，认为他们可以用相对少的军队占领边界。

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However, there's a huge problem with this type of thinking: it's a great big creativity myth.

然而，这种想法有一个很严重的问题：这只是一个关于创造性的神话。

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Now, let's imagine you're thinking of adding 5 big new blocks to the box. Well, you have some decisions to make now, don't you?

现在，让我们想象你还想给盒子里再装进5个大块的积木，那么，你就要开始作出决定了，对吧？

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All right. We've got a big majority, and both are logical ways of thinking, but it turns out that the majority is correct, which is not always the case, but the electron is not ejected in this case.

好，大多数人都这么认为，这两种看法都是合乎逻辑的，但结果是大多数人是对的，这种情况不经常发生，但是电子在这种情况下,确实不会被逐出。

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And he took this line of thinking a big step further.

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But their leaders were sometimes capable of thinking big.

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He repeated his criticisms of the current direction of the US human spaceflight programme, saying it lacked ambition compared with the big thinking of the 1960s.

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