I didn’t like the title, and he kept on chanting it during the talk.
Eventually, at the end of the talk, he corrected it to my satisfaction, and talked about transitioning from learning to thinking to creating. The creation of new things, and in particular, writing down ideas and applying them is where more energy should be expended.
Learning and thinking without doing is masturbation.
From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
“You just keep thinking, Butch; that’s what you’re good at.”
For some people (and I think there are quite a few of them), they need to change their habits just to get to thinking.
I don’t think there are so many on this list with that problem. Plenty of thinking goes on around here. If anything, too much. If there is a problem, it’s with doing, not thinking. Clearly some here do create, but with all the akrasia talk, I think a lot wish they created more out of that thinking, and I’m one of them.
My impression is that, even here, there are relatively few people who will take five minutes (let alone more) to really focus on something. There are more here than average who will do a sort of casual non-creative reasonably clear thinking.
I didn’t like the title, and he kept on chanting it during the talk.
Eventually, at the end of the talk, he corrected it to my satisfaction, and talked about transitioning from learning to thinking to creating. The creation of new things, and in particular, writing down ideas and applying them is where more energy should be expended.
Learning and thinking without doing is masturbation.
From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: “You just keep thinking, Butch; that’s what you’re good at.”
In his case, he had a long way to go to get to the point where he had a chance of communicating what he was thinking about.
For some people (and I think there are quite a few of them), they need to change their habits just to get to thinking.
I don’t think there are so many on this list with that problem. Plenty of thinking goes on around here. If anything, too much. If there is a problem, it’s with doing, not thinking. Clearly some here do create, but with all the akrasia talk, I think a lot wish they created more out of that thinking, and I’m one of them.
My impression is that, even here, there are relatively few people who will take five minutes (let alone more) to really focus on something. There are more here than average who will do a sort of casual non-creative reasonably clear thinking.