Thinking
Mo Shafieeha and
Thinking
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. B... See more
Farnum Street • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught
It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
-Napoleon
We need more vocabulary around the experience of thinking, as in:
-thinking qua “directing my inner monologue along certain pathways”
- thinking qua “no words, just feeling the thought-shapes moving & finding how they want to fit together”
- thinking qua “staying with my feelings and noting the quasi-verbal expression that rises off them like s... See more
Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing: Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy
Jed McKenna • 2 highlights
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research on intellectual humility has exploded in the past 10 years. Psychologists now have many different ways to assess intellectual humility. Social scientists know that possessing a high level of intellectual humility is associated with multiple positive outcomes, like having more empathy, more prosocial behavior, reduced susceptibility to misi... See more