Thought provoking

But here's what troubles me about this whole arrangement: we know belief isn't built on truth. It's built on repetition . The thoughts we return to, consciously or not, become something much more powerful than fleeting mental events. They become the raw material from which we construct our mental models —those invisible lenses through which we perc... See more

thinking about thinking

I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding

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