Everyone Needs a Thinking Chair

Writing my new book DAUGHTERS seven things I have to tell you. The Chapter on YOU has led me into the world of what is intelligence and can you improve on what you are born with???

What are the steps that will set you apart from the other 7.4 billion people in the World?

One of them is the ability to Think!

 

 

 

Thinking         But not any sort of thinking you have to be able to do some deep thinking about how you are going to improve a situation.  You have to be able to analyse and go through the problem or opportunity. Sift through the details and asses the outcomes and possibilities. This does not happen in the middle of a busy day or frenetic activity. You have to stop yes that’s right stop. You have to make the conscious effort to stop all your activity and go somewhere some place and think about what is happening. For a lot of people this is not easy, they may even be frightened of stopping and thinking about things. They may meet someone they have not had occasion to meet someone they have not encountered for sometime-themselves. The other thing it is a habit once you get in the habit of it is not so bad. I have a thinking chair in my shed it is where I go to think about things a quiet place away from everything. But the thing is I am not running away from issues, problems or people for that matter I am actually confronting them facing them in the only place they really exist; in my mind.  The secret here is that I have to be positive, it is so easy to slip into the old negative trip and blame game. No be positive because that is the smart thing to do. It has been amazing to me over the years how thinking about things deeply makes the solution seem attainable, the project surmountable, the relationship salvageable, the book writable...