"Perhaps you know the expression ‘the elephant in the room’. It refers to an obvious subject that nobody wants to discuss. A kind of taboo. **In contrast, let us define what ‘the gorilla in the room’ is: a topic that is of the utmost importance and urgency, and that we absolutely need to address, but nobody knows about it.**" -- --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[illusion-of-attention]], [[dashboards]], [[long-term-thinking]], **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]