“Learning how to think really means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
Farnam Street • This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
thinking, and the need to consider all the complex or overwhelming details. If we can make a decision quickly, then we can get back to doing more fun stuff, such as watching ridiculous videos on YouTube.
Drew Eric Whitman • Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone (Cashvertising Series)
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.