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Too much thinking is like a heavy dish, it makes you sluggish and sleepy. Remember that everything that moves quickly and elegantly through the world does so wi
by Silverback_VII 4y ago
Too much thinking is like a heavy dish, it makes you sluggish and sleepy. Remember that everything that moves quickly and elegantly through the world does so without too much thought.
- gowld 4y agoAnd everything that withstands assault does so with thought.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI don’t agree. You can assault an experience as much as you like. Nevertheless the experience still stands, thought or no thought.
- mlyle 4y ago“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. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.” -Whitehead
- SamPatt 4y agoNot sure everyone has a choice in this. My default is deeper thought, occasionally to my detriment. I can only operate quickly if I have extensive experience doing that thing. Learning new sports or new mental tasks is slow and requires a lot of discomfort, intentionally pushing my body and mind to just do something they don't feel ready for. I sometimes do wish I could act more quickly but thus far the only method which works is to do the thing a lot.
- Apocryphon 4y agoReminds me of the fiction of Peter Watts, which basically suggests that consciousness is an evolutionary glitch, and pointless. https://reasonedeclecticism.substack.com/p/peter-watts-and-consciousness https://reasonedeclecticism.substack.com/p/peter-watts-and-c...
- marcusverus 4y agoThis immediately brought to mind the song “Dancing Through Life”, from Wicked.