2006-08-14 16:57:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
What does it take to be a thinker? I don't know the whole answer, but I can point to a few things. I think it helps to be naturally introspective, to be considered somewhat of an outsider - this allows you the psychological distance to be more contemplative of your surroundings. I think it helps to be a little bit hurt by the world, to have a touch of cynicism. Not that cynical thinking leads to interesting ideas necessarily, but it too also provides distance. Basically, it helps to be in a situation where you can objectify things around you. Take the mind for instance. Most people don't pay much attention to the mechanics of their own mind. It takes a certin kind of awareness to pay attention to your mind and how it operates.
Ultimately, it's having a gnawing feelng about the stated reasons for why the universe operates the way it does that can goad people on to become thinkers. Something just doesn't sit right. An explanation feels inadequate. It's been said that a little knowledge can be an inocculation against more learning. It's important to realize that having a sense of necessary doubt about a thing helps move you into a new understanding of something. Sometimes having doubt about even the most simple things we take for granted can lead to some amazing ideas. It's helpful to be skeptical, suspecious of the accepted answer.
Finally (as I stated at the beginning), it's important to realize that no knowledge is perfect and that it never will be perfect. There is no end, only the discovery of new worlds. Therefore, this explanation I'm providing can only, in the most feeble of ways, point you in the right direction. You must continue the path of essential doubt, necessary doubt and discover (or I should say continue to discover) the underlying truth of what makes people become thinkers.
2006-08-14 17:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Good Times, Happy Times... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends upon the individual, I tend to think about anything that comes within my perception. I believe that it all comes down to the big question Who am I?
everything you do or think or see or feel adds to the data that makes up yourself.
2006-08-14 18:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by canaries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people think big time cause of thier dreams and emotion and
to be important in the world
i'm thinking so i'm alive
we must think to have agood life
without thinking we'll belike the animals
2006-08-14 17:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by Dreamer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More misuse of the English language
2006-08-15 02:30:37 · answer #4 · answered by kytho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pl try to give back acceptance that they got from their family at an early age. good feed backs bring secure thinking and leads to actions.
2006-08-14 17:03:22 · answer #5 · answered by Tom S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad decision, wrong choice, long pain. Pain is a good converter of bad decisions.
2006-08-14 17:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by Ms CMP5260 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no body thinks big any thing turns up big is by accident.
2006-08-15 03:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, therefore I am.
2006-08-14 17:01:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋