Thinking (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Thinking (MoC) ## Notes   - [[Amygdala]] - [[Analytical thinking]] - [[Angles to consider when thinking about the value of a journal]] - [[Are my thoughts useful]] - [[Argument terminology]] - [[Beyond Note-Taking - Creating a Playground for Your Mind (Article)]] - [[Blink (book)]] - [[Brainstorming]] - [[Build Your Knowledge System for Decades Not Months (Article)]] - [[Building a second brain helps develop the main one]] - [[CBT Principles]] - [[CBT Strategies]] - [[Cingulate cortex]] - [[Cogito ergo sum]] - [[Cognition is embodied and situated]] - [[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)]] - [[Convergent thinking]] - [[Critical thinking]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 022 - Ecosystems and Integrated Thinking Environments]] - [[Divergent thinking]] - [[Don't believe everything the voice in your head is saying]] - [[Don't try to escape negative thoughts. That's the best way to keep those around]] - [[Edward de Bono]] - [[Everything we experiment is in interaction with our mind]] - [[First principle]] - [[Fourth place]] - [[Freedom of thought]] - [[Futures Wheel]] - [[Getting Things Done (GTD)]] - [[Gut feeling]] - [[How PKM and Note-Taking Tools Help Think More Effectively (Article)]] - [[How to create better atomic notes]] - [[How to think logically (Article)]] - [[Inquiry based thinking]] - [[Integrated Thinking Environment (ITE)]] - [[Intellectual Capital]] - [[Journaling prompts]] - [[Kidlin's Law]] - [[Lag is the mind-killer]] - [[Lateral thinking]] - [[Learn and memorize first principles and mental models]] - [[Linear thinking]] - [[Make a conscious effort to think in order to remain rational and calm down]] - [[Meditation]] - [[Middle out thinking]] - [[Mind]] - [[More emotions implies less cognitive control]] - [[Networked Thought]] - [[Obsidian is my Fourth Place and Command Center]] - [[Outliner]] - [[Parietal cortex]] - [[Passive income requires long-term thinking]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management avoids needless pressure on the human brain]] - [[Positivity and increased positive emotions increases our resilience and capacity to change]] - [[Positivity and increased positive emotions opens and broadens our thinking]] - [[Prefrontal cortex (PFC)]] - [[Progressive Distillation]] - [[Putting thoughts on trial]] - [[Radiant thinking]] - [[Representational thinking]] - [[Restricting your speech backpropagates to restricting your thoughts]] - [[Saving and Restoring Mental Contexts to Improve Mental Health and Productivity (Article)]] - [[Scamper Method]] - [[Sharpness of Thinking]] - [[Six Thinking Hats method]] - [[Stadium of selves]] - [[SySTEM Model]] - [[Systems thinking]] - [[Taking notes means taking a stance]] - [[The more you train yourself to think in concrete terms, the more flow and consistency you will create]] - [[The Paradox of choice]] - [[The way we think and feel is closely related with how our gut is behaving]] - [[Theory of Multiple Intelligences]] - [[Thinking is a superpower we all share]] - [[Thinking is processing information and knowledge to create new information and knowledge]] - [[Tips to stop overthinking]] - [[To function at our best, we need to align emotion and cognition; feeling and thinking]] - [[Touch typing]] - [[We must be able to inhibit or stop parasite thoughts and actions early]] - [[Why take notes while reading]] - [[Wisdom is knowledge put to action]] - [[Write to think clearly]] - [[Writing is thinking]] - [[You cannot choose well if you choose only using your rational mind]] - [[You Need a Fourth Place A Space to Think (Article)]]  ## Quotes   - [[A lot of organizations think automation leads to savings, but the goal of automation is to release the human from the robot and create capacity for thought]] - [[A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes]] - [[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience]] - [[Anything that keeps stuff out of the head because it has captured it and is trusted to remind appropriately, is GTD]] - [[As a knowledge worker, you need systems to learn, think, plan, track, and do]] - [[As soon as you present a problem to me, I have some ready-made answer. Those ready-made answers get in the way of clear thinking, and we can’t help but have them]] - [[Better thinking makes you a better person. And writing is a great way to improve your thinking]] - [[By externalizing our thoughts, we clear mental space for creativity and innovation]] - [[Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner]] - [[Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts]] - [[Collections of local files can be pristine ecosystems for unique ideas to live]] - [[Computers are like a bicycle for our minds]] - [[Conversations are the first draft of our thinking. The better your conversations, the better your ideas]] - [[Don't just think it. Ink it]] - [[Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go]] - [[Don't underestimate the power of thinking about one sentence]] - [[Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind]] - [[Everything is a composition of lower-level concepts]] - [[Everytime you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect]] - [[First-principles thinking is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it]] - [[Focus on concepts, systems and processes]] - [[Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs]] - [[Fundamentally, controlling and channeling your attention is about feeling, thinking, and doing what YOU want versus what others want]] - [[Good thinkers get clear on their terms and know their exact boundaries, so their thinking is crisp and clear, not fuzzy or ambiguous. Define your terms]] - [[Hard work includes hard thinking]] - [[How do people even know what they think, if they don't write]] - [[How you journal is much less important than why you are doing it. To get something off your chest. To have quiet time with your thoughts]] - [[I don’t think AI introduces a new kind of thinking. It reveals what actually requires thinking]] - [[I don't trust my brain for long term information storage and retrieval. I also think better when I write. Short term memory is too constrained]] - [[I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values, and follow my own moral compass, then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own]] - [[I think once therefore I think twice]] - [[I think, therefore I am]] - [[I try not to speak more clearly than I think]] - [[I use journaling as a tool to clarify my thinking and goals. The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind]] - [[I want AI companies to pay me rent for all the space and time they're using in my brain]] - [[I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel]] - [[Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread]] - [[If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading]] - [[If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way. Writing is the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with]] - [[If you don't control what you choose to consume, you lose control over your thoughts]] - [[If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking]] - [[If you think learning is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance]] - [[If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking]] - [[If you want to think for yourself, you can’t have someone always whispering in your ear. If you want space to think, you need quiet and calm, not a bunch of people throwing out new ideas]] - [[In the era of algorithmic distraction, the ability to maintain a single thread of thought for four hours is a superpower. It is the only way to solve hard problems]] - [[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it]] - [[It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it]] - [[It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows]] - [[Je pense donc je suis]] - [[Judge ideas, not how or where they come from]] - [[Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends]] - [[Les êtres sensibles ne sont pas des êtres sensés]] - [[My predominant feeling is one of gratitude]] - [[Notes don't make contemporary physics easier, they make it possible]] - [[On a long enough timeframe, the thinker will always outperform the hustler]] - [[Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them]] - [[One of the central challenges of creative work is the capture of images and other forms of condensed thought]] - [[Our thoughts are the lens through which we see the world]] - [[Our tools change us. They rewire our brains]] - [[Overthinking is a symptom of keeping too much information in your brain]] - [[Overthinking kills your happiness]] - [[Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think]] - [[People need to write more to think more clearly. But many think about it the other way around]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) channels thoughts, ideas and knowledge into more meaningful action]] - [[Possessions can disappear in an instant, but nobody can ever take away what’s in your mind]] - [[Read everything. But remember, a book is only a book. You must learn to think for yourself]] - [[Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own]] - [[Reasoning from first principles is a superpower]] - [[Remember the true purpose of notes. They are not just to remember, but to think. They are not just to store, but to connect. They are not just to capture, but to create]] - [[Smart people read (a lot)]] - [[Start with writing. The rest will follow. Clear writing means clear thinking, which makes speaking clearly much easier]] - [[Stop deliberating, stop planning and just act]] - [[Take vacations not to escape, but to think undistracted]] - [[The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe]] - [[The better you're able to express your ideas, the more clearly you think about those ideas]] - [[The clearer my mind is, the more inspirational thinking occurs. Go to bed with a problem to solve in your head, and there's a good chance you'll wake up with at least a starting solution]] - [[The demand for AI skills is exploding while humans rapidly lose the ability to learn new ones]] - [[The direct consequence of taking more notes is that you retain more information and knowledge. But the most important benefit is one of the second-order effects. You improve your thinking]] - [[The future of PKM lies not in choosing between traditional methods and AI tools]] - [[The goal is not to take notes. The goal is to think effectively]] - [[The hallmark of independent thinking is disbelief in the fashionable religions of the day]] - [[The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts]] - [[The mirror reflects a perfect image because it does not think]] - [[The more you have on your mind, the less headspace you have to think and work]] - [[The more you try to outsource thinking, The less thinking you actually do]] - [[The root of being human is learning how to think]] - [[The way we think colors our view of the world]] - [[There are too many distractions in this life for quality of thought, and it's quality of thought, not quantity, that counts]] - [[There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking]] - [[Think about the positives in your life as soon as you wake up. You may have a long day ahead, but positive thinking will set you straight]] - [[Think first, code second]] - [[Think slow. Act fast]] - [[Thinking clearly begins with writing. We need to externalize thoughts to make sense of them]] - [[Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge]] - [[Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake]] - [[Thoughts create reality. PKM improves thinking. Hence, PKM changes the world for the best]] - [[To think, in an unbroken, deep, way, with no outside inputs, analog is the best way to go]] - [[Treat ideas like cattle, not like pets]] - [[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth]] - [[Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects. But let us once try whether we do not get further by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition]] - [[Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions]] - [[We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think]] - [[We need a fourth place, beyond home, work, and social spaces. A place where our thoughts can exist outside our heads, where we can interact with them, play with them, and develop them into something greater]] - [[We need to externalize our thinking to feel less overwhelmed and think more deeply]] - [[We need to understand how our minds work so we can work our minds better]] - [[What others think about you is not important. What you think about yourself means everything]] - [[What we think, we become]] - [[When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his mental process]] - [[When you are consumed by thoughts, write. When you are uninspired, read]] - [[When you choose what to watch or read, you are choosing your future thoughts and perspectives. Consume what you’d like to become]] - [[When you choose who to follow on Twitter, you are choosing your future thoughts]] - [[While negative emotions are good teachers, we can't change if our thinking and energy are impaired by too many negative emotions]] - [[Write digital notes when you want your mind to move faster. Write with pen and paper when you want your mind to move slower]] - [[Write more. It has more to do with thinking better than writing better, although the latter is a side-effect of the former]] - [[Write your thoughts down. No complexity will help if your thoughts remain only inside your head]] - [[Writing about a decision forces you to put words to your blind spots, causing you to confront reality and see where you don't fully understand the process behind your decision]] - [[Writing enables us to practice reasoning]] - [[Writing help channeling your thoughts. It brings clarity where the mind alone may struggle]] - [[Writing improves your thinking because words on the page have infinite patience. To write is to freeze an idea so you can play around with it, step away from it, and see it with fresh eyes. Hard to do that with the ideas in your head]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. Finding out what to think, and what to build]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. Rewriting is the key to improved thinking]] - [[Writing is a way to express and purify thoughts]] - [[Writing is formalized thinking]] - [[Writing is nature's way of telling us how sloppy our thinking is]] - [[Writing makes you smarter because it easier to lie to yourself with thoughts in your mind than words on a page]] - [[You can't force yourself to think any faster. Speeding up your thinking process often results in poor decisions that create future problems]] - [[You don't have to believe everything you think]] - [[You don't need another note-taking app. You need a knowledge system]] - [[You need a system that works with your brain, not against it]] - [[You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer]] - [[Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them]] - [[Your notes only reflect your knowledge and thinking at a given point in time. Each note is bound to become outdated or useless at some point]] - [[Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny]]