Thinking about thinking. How many of us actually think about how we think? How many of us actually think about how others think?
I doubt many of us would. Perhaps it may due to the fact that thinking is a natural process for each and every one of us, and our minds are thinking all the time. Just like how we are thinking about other stuff, while reading this post. We don't normally go about thinking on how we actually think.
In fact, most of the time, we don't think. We follow how others think. I wouldn't say following how others think is bad, but it makes us lazy to think. Thinking, I would then say, is a subconscious thing.
Let me have an illustration on this.
Taking for example a bottle that is half filled, like the above. Would you call it ...
1. A bottle half-full
2. A bottle half-empty
I guess most people would have the above 2 choices as their answers. Why? This is because it is a question that has been brought forward to them so many times that they can answer it at the speed of light. But it reflects how lazy we are to think, and just follow the norm. Later do we know that there are other choices like ... A bottle molecules full. I guess many of us never thought of that, or did it only flashed through your mind as an answer after I said it?
If you have the above 2 choices as your answers, have you taught about other alternatives you could answer?
You suck out the air that is inside the bottle out, and there you have a bottle full. Either way or you drain everything that is inside the bottle out, and you'll have a bottle empty. Thought of that?
The fascinating thing about our thinking is that we only use a small portion of our brain, and yet, we're able to generate so many ideas, some of which are out of the box. Different people have different thinking. Your partner beside you now may be agreeing to whatever I've written, and you may be disagreeing to it, yet again another example of different angles of thinking.
I think that I've used the word thinking too many times here, so much so that I think that 'Think' isn't supposed to be spelled that way! And I myself am confused at what I've written!
HAHA.
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