Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better. - Maria Konnikova - Quotesmemo.com

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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

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Maria Konnikova

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

Thinking, Awareness, Holmes, See, Learn

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But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

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All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

Taken, Missing, Mind, Surprisingly, Understand, Reflect

Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even

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How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Ideas, Stopping, Attention, Head, Insights

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

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