Their egos quickly become in- volved, and they then become reluctant to change their minds. There seems to be a direct relationship between the quantity of ideas and approaches you develop to solve a problem and your like- lihood of coming up with the best idea that will solve the problem in the very best way. For this reason, you must discipline yourself to resist the temptation to jump to conclusions, or to rush to judg- ment.You must proceed more slowly, like a genius, and keep asking questions.You must keep your mind open. ■ CREATIVITY IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT If the truth were known, you are an idea-generating organism. Cre- ativity is your birthright.You are a highly intelligent individual with a continuous flow of good ideas that you can use to accomplish ccc_tracy_8_136-153.qxd 6/23/03 2:48 PM Page 146
• The Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Lawrence O'Brien, whose Watergate office was to be burglarized and bugged, had no information damaging enough to defeat the incumbent president. Nor were the Democrats likely to get any, unless the administration did something very, very foolish. Despite the obvious counsel of the previously mentioned reasons, the expen- sive, chancy, pointless, and potentially calamitous proposal of a man whose judg- ment was known to be questionable was approved. How could it be that intelligent, accomplished men such as Mitchell and Magruder would do something so very, very foolish? Perhaps the answer lies in a little-discussed fact: The $250,000 plan they approved was not Liddy's first proposal. In fact, it represented a significant concession on his part from two earlier proposals of immense proportions. The first of these plans, made two months earlier in a meeting with Mitchell, Magruder,
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