The first time you learn a few thinking skills that can generate and sustain trains of thought indefinitely, it’s like learning to drive. Kinda exhilarating and you want to drive for the sake of driving. Then the thrill wanes and a fork in the road appears, with 4 options.
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What about Option 4? It’s a kind of reactionary response to failure to make thinking a worthwhile part of your life. While there are days I’m tired of thinking and perhaps more in touch with the underdeveloped emotional or somatic side of my life, it will never be core for me.
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Curiously enough, with actual driving I’ve almost turned into an Option 4. But I think that’s bad so I make myself drive a bit every few weeks. Sometimes I enjoy it, other times it’s just a chore to maintain muscle memory. I no longer “see like a driver”
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But back to thinking, at some point merely being ungovernable in otherwise governed thought spaces peopled by types 1-4 and non-jail broken non-thinkers. I got attracted to unthought “wild thoughts” spaces. It’s been a theme on my blog for years now.
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When I went free agent in 2011 my launch slogan was “where the wild thoughts are”. More recent bit of writing on this theme (from 2016):https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/05/26/how-to-take-your-brain-off-road/ …
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Ok another break. Cliffhanger for later: can you hit the edge of a thought space? Not just off-road but have to exit car because your learned sustainable thought habits can’t go any further?
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Will continue this another day. Went for a walk and had lunch so a bit sleepy now and the next part, how to be an ungovernable thinker-feeler in unmapped territories requires two 2x2s I have to draw first.
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