Do You Have Time To Think?

• Are you taking time out to spend it in thinking?

The quality of everything that we as human beings do, and I mean everything, depends upon the quality of the thinking that we do first. I wrote recently about how reflection turns experience into insight, in other words how thinking about our experience can turn it into learnings.

Now thinking has two common problems, it seems to me. The first is time. We are thinking all the time but not necessarily consciously, deliberately or critically, so like many things we need to allocate time for thinking otherwise it won’t get done.

The second problem is that although thinking doesn’t require anyone other than ourselves, thinking at a higher level does. No matter how bright or creative we might be, none of us can ever have a thought that would never occur to us. We all need other perspectives to challenge our existing thoughts. Note I said perspectives, not people who we might assume know better. There is no right or wrong only choices and as Nancy Kline said, “The key obstacles in your life and work emerge from the key obstacles in your thinking”.

To do:

1. Schedule time in your diary for ‘Thinking Time’.
2. Find people who will challenge your thinking and in so doing stretch you.
3. Open yourself to as many diverse environments as you can. That will naturally expand your thinking.

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