Think

To think is to employ the mind. Some will say that we employ the mind rationally. But we don’t always do that. Sometimes the mind seems to wander about generating thoughts that don’t seem to come from us, exactly. I can think to solve a problem or dilemma or to design a problem or dilemma. The use of the mind is thinking. I can think in positive or negative or neutral terms. It is very hard to stop thoughts from arising.
Thinking seems to often be an activity of searching the mind for some answer. That implies the answer is there, somewhere, if we can only find it. But, wait, what is in there, in amongst all those thoughts? What is included? Can I find the winning lotto number? Most answers found are built up from other answers we already know, adds, grows, changes them to give us new insightful thoughts.
The brain is the physical part of thinking. The mind is the chemical part. But what or who is the initiator, the conductor of it all? There is a strangeness about this thing we call think, for I can kind of observe the thoughts as if I’m in the balcony watching some play. To think is a constant. Sometimes I am deliberately thinking, like when solving a problem. The rest of the time it seems to just chatter along. What do you think about that?
Think and Grow Rich, a book by Napoleon Hill, suggests that a certain set of thoughts, mostly inquiries about success in business, if thought about thoroughly, will lead to riches. It is an iconic book, not one to simply give formulaic answers but that challenges the reader to think. ‘I think, therefore I am’ is a phrase coined by Rene Descartes as an opening to proof that we exist and can be self aware. Deep.
I wonder if we think while we sleep. It seems that the part that does the thinking, if left to itself will think up a constant string of thoughts, some happy, some not so much. Guess I can’t tell, because I will be asleep. But when awake, I can check in anytime I want. What I notice is that I don’t check in much at all. I think my way along and most of the time, don’t even know what I am thinking. Sheesh.

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