This is the title of my book. I want to help people understand that the way we think could be the way we are.
The way we think is the way we are. That’s what our brains are telling us, and that’s what we have to do.
When we think, our brains make connections between things. Things that are out of the ordinary. So think of the way we’re thinking as being like the way we may be. If you think you’re the same person you were yesterday, you may be mistaken.
It’s true that there is absolutely no “one true way” to reason about anything. It is a matter of how you think. It’s not a matter of how you act. People who are good at reasoning and making decisions are typically not good at acting.
In the past I have talked about the importance of thinking and acting rationally. I have also talked about the importance of being able to see how one thinks and act. My point is that if we are able to do the second, we are generally able to do the first. We will become good at both things. We will become good at both knowing how we think and how we act. We will become good at both the knowing and the acting.
Here it is then, the second part of the problem. We talk about being able to see how and why we think and act. We talk about being able to see how and why we make choices. We talk about knowing how and why we act. And yet, we can’t seem to ever go to the same place a moment and say, “This is what I am doing right now. This is how I am doing it today.” It just isn’t feasible.
I would suggest that we can indeed become good at both. We can become good at being aware of how we think and why we act. We can become good at acting on our own behalf. But even when we act on our own behalf, we are still acting without knowing what we are doing.
In the last couple of years, we’ve all had the experience of going to certain parties and forgetting the whole purpose of the party. Then we’ll go out and get drunk and then forget the purpose of the party. We’ll do stupid things like get really drunk and forget why we went to that party in the first place. That’s when life will begin to imitate art. That’s when the consequences will start to be more severe.
I think we can all agree that we are all guilty of being guilty of this. In our society, we don’t always recognize the consequences of our actions. We say that we didn’t do anything wrong and that we “just wanted to have fun.” But you know what? It’s not just fun. It’s also very dangerous.
Well, if you have to ask, why did you think you were doing anything wrong, I guess I will tell you. I wouldnt have been doing this if I hadn’t been a little stressed out about my mother coming to visit me for the weekend.
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