Your brilliance and creativity come from thinking.
It’s a superpower that we all possess which emanates from time spent alone with your thoughts – free from distraction.
There’s not much to it. Yet we rarely take full advantage.
Doing nothing else but concentrating on our thoughts is a rare moment in society today because so many things compete for our attention.
We are bombarded every day by a hailstorm of alerts, ads, and notifications. And if we’re honest, it’s often much easier and more convenient to give in to their distraction than it is to wrestle with our own thoughts and ideas.
But when we allow every free moment to be filled with someone else’s agenda, we don’t get better at thinking for ourselves.
What would happen if we practiced being more intentional about when and how we think?
Creative and novel ideas do crop up unexpectedly on occasion. But I think we sell ourselves short on our ability to do more meaningful and insightful work because we’re quick to relegate thinking to the back burner.
When was the last time you made thinking a priority? Have you ever scheduled 30 minutes on your calendar just to mull over an idea?
How often do we Google our questions, and then give up on the problem when we can’t find the answer on the first page of results?
If you always outsource your time to think for yourself, don’t expect to contribute anything original or particularly valuable.
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