The five cognitive distortions of people who gets stuff done

This is from lecture from Michael Dearing about the characteristics that he has found to be common across colleges and founders that get things done.

• Personal exceptionalism: This is the believe that you are unique and your destiny is to do something great, something like if you were chosen for that.
• Dichotonomous thinking: If you are one of those people that things that something is right or wrong and there is not a gray area in the middle, this is you cognitive distortion
• Correct overgeneralization: You are able to forecast in someway what is going to happen or what is going to be needed and you are correct most of the time.
• Blank-canvas thinking: This is for the people who is able to think outside the box, even when there is an established way of doing things and they know it, they will find other way around to make things probably better.
• Schumpeterianism: This is based on the last name of an infamous economist Joseph Schumpeter and it means someone who is able to create innovation by the meaning of destroying his previous creation. Sometimes to make something better you have to kill your favorites, this is something that I heard from Stephen King in the book on writing.

 What I mainly learned about this talk is how to find and control entrepreneurs and direct them the right way or even I felt identified with some of those distortions and it helped to better understand what is the risk of following such schemas.