The secret to designing growth loops is not better knowledge or skills, but your ability to think about your own thinking, question your automatic responses, and know your mind.*
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
We’re thinking all the time,
But do we make time to think
about what we’re thinking?
However we go about it,
Thinking about our thinking
will slow us down– and there’s the problem.
Thinking about thinking in a fast world
feels like a luxury,
But “slow is smooth and smooth is fast” works in practise.
How we think not only affects the direction
of our growth in what we see as positive,
It also enables to deal with our anxieties and stress.
Some write their thoughts out
in lists and/or journals, others
speak them out to hear what they sound like.
There are many ways–
Some label it slow thinking,**
Others write about elephants and their riders.^
Explore, experiment,
Beyond knowledge and skills,
Towards your deepest way of thinking.
*Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments;
**Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow;
^Chip and Dan Heath’s Switch.
THIN|SILENCE 