{"id":1803,"date":"2019-01-03T08:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:01:46","slug":"how-not-to-be-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/01\/03\/how-not-to-be-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Not To Be Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to link to this because it&#8217;s fascinating and, well, the consequences for business, and business leadership, are significant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/01\/how-not-to-be-stupid\/\"><strong>How Not To Be Stupid<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1804 size-medium\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/01\/jack-hamilton-271069-unsplash-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/01\/jack-hamilton-271069-unsplash-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/01\/jack-hamilton-271069-unsplash-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/01\/jack-hamilton-271069-unsplash-1024x800.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Excerpt<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took me about a month, and\u00a0<strong>I defined stupidity as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information<\/strong>. Right? It\u2019s crucial information, like you better pay attention to it. It\u2019s conspicuous, like it\u2019s right in front of your nose and yet you either overlook it or you dismiss it. How not to be stupid, what are the causes of human error\u2014and it took me a couple of months of research just to come up with data points, because most stupidity is ignored or swept under the rug. I studied instances of scientific stupidity and literary stupidity and military stupidity and every other kind of stupidity, as well as two domains that engineer stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing, as they say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/EP_OHkgn1JI?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Jack Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/stupid?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to link to this because it&#8217;s fascinating and, well, the consequences for business, and business leadership, are significant. How Not To Be Stupid Excerpt: &#8220;It took me about a month, and\u00a0I defined stupidity as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information. Right? It\u2019s crucial information, like you better pay attention to it. It\u2019s conspicuous, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/01\/03\/how-not-to-be-stupid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;How Not To Be Stupid&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-t5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}