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"There may simply be futility at the heart of search—no approach to searching can guarantee that you reach your objectives. It’s not enough to give up the idea that objectives are the best way to direct a search. We’ve seen that they’re not. But we’ll also have to abandon the idea that anything can always reveal the path to an ambitious objective."

Nassim Taleb once mentioned that if one knows the exact structure of their day before they set off for it, they are not alive. In many ways his philosophy and that of the authors of this book are p similar in that they emphasize exploration and trial and error rather than the pursuit of objectives with both concluding that objectives tend to make us blind to the things that would serve us most.