THE AWESOME BENEFITS OF THINKING
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BENEFITS of THINKING

1 - Live Fully!

Some people go, Why bother? Waste of time!
It's way too much work, all this thinking.
Much easier just to stay with what we believe.
Let everyone believe whatever they like.

To do this is to live a half life.

As Galileo said long ago,when the church demanded that he deny all the findings showing the earth rotated around the sun:

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Whether there is or isn't a god is up for debate, but the crippling effects of not thinking are all around us. Millions are stuck, saying things like, but who's to say which opinion is better? - as if they had no right to look at evidence and think.

They come to controversial ideas, controversial questions,
have no idea how to with them, except to go,
I know what I think.

Not to know how to think is like living in a wheelchair
when we could walk,
like wearing a blindfold when we could see.

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2 - The Pleasure of Good Thinking

You can call it hitting the Good Thinking G-Spot.
You can call it the Cogni Sutra.
It's the joy of thinking - satisfying, intense, enduring.
A mental workout - at least as good for us as any other exercise.

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3 - Things Make More Sense

Most people are sure they know
what's right and what's wrong.
But without the tools of good thinking, people are lost.
They don't know how to defend their arguments.
They often don't even know if their opinion makes sense.
It just feels right to them.
They're sure - but then, people have been sure
slavery was right. So is their thinking right?

How can one settle controversial issues, controversial questions?

The benefits of thinking, of good critical thinking skills,
are that one doesn't have to rely on feelings.
With clear thinking, one can be on solid ground.

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4 - Stop the Pain of Mental Confusion

There's a lot of pain good thinking can't stop.
But it can stop the pain of mental confusion.

We get so many messages from all sides - and lots of them contradict each other. Arghhhh!

If we care, we may keep on mulling over controversial topics, controversial questions, a whole list of controversial issues.
Yes, many are hard to resolve, no matter how well we think.

But with good thinking, clear thinking, critical thinking,
the power of thinking - with those on our side, it's easier, heading
into the darkness of massive amounts of mixed messages.

We can figure out what makes sense, instead of backing away or taking refuge in lines like, "Who are we to judge?"
If not us, who?

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5 - Leave Behind: Life Is Boring -
Enjoy a More Passionate Life

So many people go through life bored. Life is boring,
they intone over and over. Nothing is interesting.
Lovers of good thinking know:
there is always so much more to discover.

Some people play the stock market. It keeps them revved up -
and often stressed out, tense and miserable, desperate.
The stock market leaves some me cold.

But the Idea Market! That stirs me, grips me, holds me.
Ideas - they can keep us hot and smoldering with the desire
to understand, to share, to go further and further.

A benefit of thinking is that you can find your own
Good Thinking G-Spot. You can discover
what ideas most turn you on.

Benefits of thinking, of clear thinking, of critical thinking?
Being passionate about life, passionate about ideas,
passionate about letting the good thinking juices flow.
The Good Thinking G-Spot - glorious good thinking,
a romp in the mental haystack.

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6 - Less Fear, More Joy

The majority of people recoil from logical arguments, as if these were instruments of some horrific satanic cult. "I know what I think," and ""Don't tell me what to think!" they utter as if these were braids of garlic being waved to ward off a vampire.

Masses of people are like this, giving every sign of dreading critical thinking, clear thinking, logical thinking, good thinking.

Or is it fear? Maybe it's avoidance based on ... again, I come to some fear - because many people keep such distance - as if critical thinking skills were not only particularly nasty varieties of rat poison, but emitted some lethal radiation.

In fact, for most people, the fear/dread/aversion barrier has congealed into a wall of solid cement, as rigid as the mental wall of the church leaders who adamantly insisted the sun goes around the earth.

This fear serves only to keep people confined - and often ready to burst out in destructive and even murderous rage.

That means those who dare to think often need to be wary of those with walls in their minds. In other words, even more fear - this time fear of physical violence as well as rage and ridicule.

That menace of violence hangs over millions upon millions of people brought up and living within rigid religions and totalitarian regimes, and also over millions of people in countries with freedom of speech, yet scared of verbal abuse.

Good thinking helps us take a close look at fear,
and leave behind as many as possible.

Instead of fear, we come to joy -

* the exhilaration of discovery,

* the joy of mental adventuring,

* the delight of the eureka! feeling,

* the hard work and frustration,
as well as joy, of delving deeply,

* and the of joy sharing discoveries.

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7 - Ever More Tools and Techniques
for Good Thinking

Once one starts down the good thinking path, one picks up ever more techniques and strategies. For example, if someone says something that does not seem to make sense, we are likely to have an assembly of jiffy spiffy techniques to check this out.

For example, we can ask ourselves: is this a statement where it and its opposite must both be true - in which case the statement is false. Just one example. Many people hold that all opinions are equal. In this case the opinions that opinions are not equal is equal to the opinion that they are. Therefore, the opinion that opinions are equal must be false.

With good thinking, the world expands: curiosity, interest, stimulation, excitement, satsfaction, and ever more interest.

The Idea Emporium - a gym for the mind,
that keeps the mental juices flowing.

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1 FABULOUS OUTCOME

First, each of the benefits leads to an outcome -
which means, so far, 7 positive outcomes.

* living more fully, closer to our potential;

* enjoying the pleasures of good thinking;

* having things make more sense;

* stopping the pain of mental confusion;

* enjoying a more passionate life;

* living with more joy and less fear;
* developing ever more tools for good thinking.

The largest outcome -
for someone who starts as a 98-pound mental weakling -
is a personal transformation.

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One comes to live -

* not with rigid walls - but on solid ground;

* not with rigid preconceptions -
but with perceptions as clear as we can make them;

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But all that is far from the largest outcome:

# 1 - A Better World

Okay, if just one person does good thinking, maybe the improvements would not be huge. However, think of the horrors connected to rotten thinking:

* people who believe they will go to heaven and be awarded with swarms of virgins (up to 70) if they die killing non-believers;

* people who just as ardently believe all religions are equal.

In neither case, can the people think well.

Of course, we don't need just better thinking. There's all kinds of emotional junk that needs to be cleared out, and so on and so forth.

But I'm not suggesting that good thinking is the be-all and end-all, the alpha and omega that will bring paradise to earth and have lions and lambs lying down together.

I'm just saying that if good thinking were common throughout the world, the world would be a much better place.

And since this isn't an all or nothing thing, every bit of good thinking helps make the world a bit better.

There are lots of other outcomes, but they're small beside the big one.

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Easier to Spot Stupid Opinions

Even if you can't stop their hold on someone else, you can stop their hold on you, shake the hold of opinions that had you in their grip because you had no tools to ward them off.

I remember the relief I got from a Comparative Religion class in my first year of university. It made the world make so much more sense. Without knowledge of the evolution of religions, how could I evaluate which claims made sense? - like the claim by so many religions that they had the truth. Discovering the way the religions of the Middle East had evolved, was incredibly liberating.

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Easier to Do Great Thinking

Critical thinking, logical thinking, good thinking,
logical analysis. It's so simple. In fact, it's much harder
to learn how to swim or ski or play tennis or send an email.
Yet people rarely take lessons to do good thinking.
And an outcome of brushing up on thinking is
ever better good thinking.

No more 98-pound mental weaklings!
Defend your opinions with the power of evidence and logic.

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Savoring the Pleasure of Thinking Well

Like the pleasure of doing a sport well, or dancing well, or cooking well, there's good thinking – a pleasure some people
have no idea about. Discovery!

This outcome is one the specific pleasures of doing good thinking, which brings us back to one of the benefits of good thinking -
the Good Thinking G-Spot, the Cogni Sutra,
The Joy of Good Thinking.

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- and even more -
Ever More Creative Thinking

Good thinking leads to more and more good thinking.

But none of that can hold a candle
to the biggest outcome -
a much better world.

ELSA,
a.k.a.
DR ZEE,
Cogni Sutra Diva
plus
Brain Trainer,
Clear Thinking Trainer,
Mental Workout Coach,
Thinking Expert,
Mental Muscle Enhancer

Elsa
February 2009, April 7, 2009

copyright © Elsa Schieder, 2009, 2011, all rights reserved

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To go to The Cogni Sutra,
more amazing benefits of thinking, good thinking,
click here.

To go to Going for that Good Thinking G-Spot,
still more awesome benefits of thinking,
of critical thinking skills,
click here.

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7 Benefits of Thinking.
1. Stop the Pain with the Power of Thinking!
Yes, Clear Thinking, Critical Thinking End
Mental Confusion. Find the Good Thinking G-Spot.

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THE BENEFITS OF THINKING at THE IDEA EMPORIUM:
CLEAR THINKING, GOOD THINKING, ANALYTICAL THINKING -
IN OTHER WORDS, THE TRUE POWER OF THINKING

MORE BENEFITS OF THINKING:
LATERAL THINKING, LOGICAL THINKING, CREATIVE THINKING -
IN OTHER WORDS, MORE OF THE POWER OF THINKING

7 Benefits of Thinking. 1. Stop the Pain with
the Power of Thinking! Yes, Clear Thinking,
Critical Thinking Ends Mental Confusion.
Find the Good Thinking G-Spot.

The Idea Emporium - why and what

One of my lifelong concerns has been trying to make sense of reality. What is happening? Why is this happening? And with that I come to ideas - ideas about reality, ideas that need to be checked against reality, not just believed in like the tooth fairy is accepted by a child.

Issues and controversies - how do we resolve them?

And right there I'm at the benefits of thinking - how to evaluation ideas without knowing how to think? How to do clear thinking, good thinking, critical thinking - if these are just words, rather than things one knows how to do. The power of thinking is only as great as the critical thinking skills of the person doing the thinking. Good thinking? Good grief, one often wants to say about what is presented as clear thinking. But a bit of the power of thinking shows it to be what it is. Bad bad bad thinking, not thinking.

The Idea Emporium - a place to savor the benefits of thinking, the power of thinking. A Good Thinking, Clear Thinking Emporium.