In this episode, Earl Nightingale makes a bold claim: thinking is the highest accomplishment of the human being—and it deserves more deliberate attention than we usually give it. He explores the difference between convergent thinking (process and precision) and divergent thinking (people and judgment), reminding us that most meaningful work lives in the messier category.

The episode then turns to competency as the foundation of growth, arguing that originality doesn’t begin with reinvention, but with learning from those who have already done the work. Emulation, Earl suggests, isn’t conformity—it’s apprenticeship—and true originality only becomes possible after real competence is built.

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