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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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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What loomed large for me was that we shouldn’t be thinking in a linear way that A causes B. We should be thinking about how things work together.

对我显得突出的是，我们不应该用A引起B的直线性思考方法，我们应该考虑事物是如何共同运作的。

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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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