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Ep. 250: In Defense of Thinking
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Reclaim Thinking in Your Life
In 1910, we get this interesting advice from Arnold Bennett saying, essentially what I call productive meditation in my books. This is him a hundred years earlier saying, yeah, teach your mind how to think. Give it something to think about. Bring your attention back to the subject again and again. You have more control over your mind than you think if you do the work. To be a good thinker is to be like someone who can run a fast mile. Humans are capable of running a fast mile, but it takes a lot of training. It's too scary to think about the mind and just think and produce great thoughts and we want to reward you for it. We should take it more
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