If without giving a deep thought you replied I am not at all a fool, let me quickly give you one important benefit of being a fool; at times thinking like a fool help us to look at a problem in a helpful way. I follow the mantra of "if a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well". When I give the same thing a second thought as a fool i might say "you don't have to do things well! indeed its okay to do things poorly; otherwise you'll never let yourself be a beginner at a new activity". In this case i expanded my horizon of working field by thinking as a fool.
A fool notices things that other people overlook. A fool may extol the trivial what other people took for granted. So thinking like a fool exposes us to the situation that we rarely question. Thinking like a fool at times may be absurd, cryptic and might take the contrary position but it might help us to see the other side of the big picture.
Its no surprise that some of the greatest solutions, discovery and inventions are made thinking as a fool. When newton started questioning about the falling apple other people thought it was obvious and too trivial to question about. Newton was a fool to think of such trivial. But he proved the world wrong by bringing the world's one of the biggest discoveries (gravitation force) initiated by that fool thought.
So the great benefit of the fool's antics and observation is that they stimulate our thinking. Now i understand why Steve jobs always say "Stay hungry, Stay foolish".
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