“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
A teacher of mine once made a chilling statement:
“Once you start thinking, you’ll realize you’ve never thought before.”
“What is he talking about?” I asked myself.
I’ve built multi-million dollar businesses, produced ~80 online courses, managed teams, run retreats all over the world, and even did pretty damn well in school when I felt like it.
So what, in other words, the fxck is he talking about?
As it turns out, he was talking about exactly what he said he was talking about.
And, when I finally started thinking, I came to the mind-splitting realization that — just as he’d claimed:
I’d never actually thought before.
I’d felt as though I was thinking.
I’d looked like I was thinking.
I’d even thought I was thinking.
But I hadn’t actually been thinking.
It was as though I’d spent my entire life thinking I was walking, only to realize I’d been crawling on my hands and knees.
And when I finally stood tall, and started putting one foot in front of the other…
…An entirely new world of possibility opened up in front of me.
After all, how could it not?
Thinking is the foundational skill from which all other skills are sourced:
The world of work, business, and money is an exercise in thought.
(business is a game that is played with the mind; the mind is to an entrepreneur or executive what the body is to an athlete)
Communication is our thoughts expressed, and the clarity and power of our communication (and therefore the quality of our relationships) is dependant on the clarity and power of our thoughts.
Even our attractiveness is signalled by our intelligence, and our intelligence is a direct reflection of our ability to think.
As the Buddha (allegedly) said:
With your thoughts you create the world.
There is nothing our thinking doesn’t touch, which means there is, arguably, nothing more important than developing our ability to think.
So that’s what we’re going to do this week.
Stay tuned…
T
P.S. In case you missed it yesterday, here’s:
The Simple Formula For Speaking Powerfully
(remember, speaking is an expression of thought, which means your ability to speak powerfully is sourced from your ability to think)
