Mastering Your Mind: The Art of Guiding Your Thoughts
Discover the essential techniques to shape your thoughts effectively and cultivate a resilient mindset for personal growth and success.
Thoughts are foundational. All our efforts will end up amounting to nothing, if we aren’t thinking right. Even then, more often than not we end up putting very little thought about how we think.
What do we do, when we think? All our thoughts can be, more or less, categorized as imagination, deliberation, concept formation, reasoning, problem solving and judging. And, there are no waking moment when we are not indulging in one of those.
More we think, more we train our brain on how to think and as that happens, more rigid our thought process becomes. Thinking is a conscious cognitive process. Ideally our thoughts should be considered, yet we often find ourselves overwhelmingly relying on intuitions and presumptions. That happens because our brain prioritise efficiency over rationality, and it creates shortcuts based on past processes (think machine learning). Thus it becomes increasingly important that we train our brain with the right kind of models so that we think right, and when we need shortcut our intuitions don’t fail us.
In this issue of Brewed for Work, we delves into this subtle art of thinking.
Today’s Issue at a Glance:
First Principle Thinking
Second Order Thinking
Thought Experiment
Inversion
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