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• Archive: “STOP, THINK, AND DON’T DO SOMETHING STUPID!” This is the warning Dr. Robert Bea drills into his Civil and Environmental Engineering students at the University of California in Berkeley.
• Bea wants to dramatize what he terms the inevitable “oh shit” moments that present themselves—before an actual engineering calamity like the Deepwater Horizon/BP disaster happens.There’s an intangible and invisible marketplace within our lives today where the products traded are four fold: attention, distraction, data and meaning.
• The stories and examples within Consider demonstrate that the best decisions, insights, ideas and outcomes result when we take sufficient time to think and reflect.
• While technology allows us to act and react more quickly than ever before, we are taking increasingly less time to consider our decisions before we make them.
• Reflection supplies an arsenal of ideas and solutions to the right problems.