What Is Thinking Good For?

What Is Thinking Good For?

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What Is Thinking Good For? Is human thought good for anything and everything? This brief page provides twelve examples of when to use thinking and when not to use thinking.

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What Is Thinking Good For?: Times to Think

• We need thinking and should develop it.

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1. To problem-solve.
2. To cope.
3. To mark or note.
4. To analyze.
5. To remember.
6. To record.
7. To categorize.
8. To name and label.
9. To recall.
10. To make maps.
11. To make diagrams.
12. To store and memorize.
13. To create a habit.
14. To condition.
15. To criticize.

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What Is Thinking Good For?: Times Not to Think

• We overuse thinking and should limit it.

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1. To do.
2. To read.
3. To love.
4. To sing.
5. To enjoy.
6. To create.
7. To forgive.
8. To perform.
9. To play music.
10. To experience.
11. To understand.
12. To pray or meditate.

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3D: Daily Dose: 2021

Thinking Noise: 05-28-2021

1. “Thinking is noise in your head because you hear it but are not it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
2. “Thinking is noise in your head because you hear it but are not creating it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
3. “Thinking is noise in your head that you can reject and switch from without believing it or defending it because it is not you.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
4. “Treat your thinking like you do a radio or TV station, and switch to better content and signals without a care for the channel you are switching from.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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Destructive Thinking Is a Thief: 06-06-2021

1. “Not only do you not have to listen to destructive thinking, but you also should not.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
2. “Destructive thinking does not teach you; it conditions you to serve disintegration.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
3. “Destructive thinking steals time and energy that constructive thinking would make better use of.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
4. “There is no excuse for serving destructive thinking when its purpose and history of outcomes are known to be destructive.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
5. “Destructive thinking cannot lead you to constructive thinking without your first rejecting destructive thinking.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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