an online book by David Gurteen
In their most common sense, thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that occur independently of direct sensory stimulation. Core forms include judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation. Other processes, such as entertaining an idea, memory, or imagination, are also frequently considered types of thought.
Credit: Wikipedia - thinkingConversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. | Theodore Zeldin Continue reading When Minds Meet Theodore Zeldin
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. | Christopher Hitchens Continue reading Risk of Independent Thought Christopher Hitchens
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. | E. O. Wilson Continue reading We Are Drowning in Information, While Starving for Wisdom E. O. Wilson
I write to think, think to write, and converse to do both. | David Gurteen Continue reading Writing, Thinking, Conversing—a Cycle of Insight David Gurteen
Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars … | Terry Tempest Williams Continue reading Conversation Is the Vehicle for Change Terry Tempest Williams
Real thinking is not a process of accumulating ideas, but of emptying out assumptions. | Hannah Arendt Continue reading Emptying Assumptions Hannah Arendt
Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of … | Ludwig Wittgenstein Continue reading Beginning to Think in a New Way Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. | Hannah Arendt Continue reading Thinking Is Dangerous Hannah Arendt
Our spoken language allows us to do more than just share information — it enables us to think and reason together. | David Gurteen Continue reading Our Spoken Language Enables Us to Think Together David Gurteen
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing … | Bertrand Russell Continue reading Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Critical Thinking Bertrand Russell
A man is what he thinks about all day long. | Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading A Man Is What He Thinks About All Day Long Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I can be profoundly interested in what you think and what you will think next and where you will go with your thinking, you will generate ideas and insights and ways forward that you wouldn’t do without this attention. | Nancy Kline Continue reading Being Profoundly Interested in What You Think Nancy Kline
The sciences of complexity change our perspective and thinking. Perhaps, as a result we should, especially in management, focus more attention on what we are doing than what we should be doing. Following the thinking presented by the most advanced scientific researchers, the important question to answer is not what should happen in the future, but … | Esko Kilpi Continue reading The Sciences of Complexity Change Our Perspective and Thinking Esko Kilpi
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Adam Grant (2)The Best Way to Gauge the Quality of Someone’s Ideas Adam Grant (2024)The True Leader in a Group Is Rarely the Person Who Talks the Most Adam GrantQuotations: Continue reading Think Again: the Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant (2021)
In the book Interthinking by Neil Mercer and Karen Littleton, they examine how thinking develops through social interaction rather than residing solely within individual minds. Drawing on research in education, psychology, and sociocultural theory, they introduce the concept of interthinking to describe how people use language together to reason, learn, and solve problems. The book Continue reading Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton, Neil Mercer (2013)
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. | Gregory Bateson Continue reading What Is the Root Cause of the Major Problems in the World? Gregory Bateson
If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. | Leslie Lamport Continue reading If You’re Thinking Without Writing, You Only Think You’re Thinking Leslie Lamport
And so we need to start talking and listening. And when you talk it doesn’t mean you’re right. It doesn’t mean you’re correct. Right? It means you’re trying to articulate and formulate your thoughts like the boneheaded moron that you are. And you are going to stumble around idiotically because what the hell do you know. You are full of biases, and … | Jordan Peterson Continue reading We Need to Start Talking and Listening Jordan Peterson
In the book, Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed examines the power of cognitive diversity — the ability to think differently about the world around us. He explains how to harness our unique perspectives, pool our collective intelligence, and tackle the greatest challenges of our age — from climate change to terrorism. AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited Continue reading Rebel Ideas: the Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed (2019)
Free group discussion is to thinking (ideas and abstractions) as handling things is to perception. | Melanie Abercrombie Continue reading Abercrombie’s Thesis Melanie Abercrombie
Matthew Syed is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. Pursuing Cognitive Diversity | Matthew Syed WebsiteMatthew SyedWikipediaMatthew SyedX (Twitter)@matthewsyedYouTubeMatthew SyedGoogleMatthew SyedBooks: Matthew Syed (2)Rebel Ideas: the Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed (2019)Trust Is an Essential Ingredient of Belief Formation Matthew Syed Quotations: Matthew Syed (1)Trust Is an Essential Ingredient of Belief Formation Matthew Syed Continue reading Matthew Syed Journalist, author and broadcaster
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. Credit: Jordan B. Peterson Comment: This quote by Jordan Peterson suggests that engaging in meaningful, critical thinking often requires challenging prevailing beliefs, ideas, or social norms, which may offend others. It emphasizes the idea that open dialogue and the exploration of controversial Continue reading In Order to Be Able to Think, You Have to Risk Being Offensive Jordan B. Peterson
The best way to gauge the quality of someone’s ideas isn’t to listen to them talking. It’s to read their writing. Compelling speakers can mask weak logic with strong charisma. Putting key points on a page exposes flawed reasoning. Compelling writing requires clear thinking. | Adam Grant Continue reading The Best Way to Gauge the Quality of Someone’s Ideas Adam Grant (2024)
When I was teaching at Columbia University, techno-prophet Marshall McLuhan came down from Toronto to lecture there. He talked about how the linear pattern of information resulting from print technology limited the thought patterns of people who learned from printed books. Word follows word, line follows line, paragraph follows paragraph, page follows page, chapter follows chapter, in a single … | Mel Alexenberg Continue reading The Book Medium Is a Stronger Message Than Its Content Marshall McLuhan
Unlike a journalist, almost surely you are using your writing process to help yourself think. In other words, the thinking that you’re doing is at such a level of complexity that you have to use writing to help yourself do your thinking. | Larry McEnerney Continue reading You Have to Use Writing to Help Yourself Do Your Thinking Larry McEnerney
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. | David Bohm Continue reading Thinking Differently David Bohm
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. | George Orwell Continue reading Writing as Thinking George Orwell
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound. | Plato Continue reading Thinking and Spoken Discourse Plato
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. | Neil Postman Continue reading Power of Questions Neil Postman
The Knowledge Illusion | Steven Sloman AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Knowledge Is Communal Most of our knowledge resides in other people The Knowledge Delusion We know far less than we Continue reading The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach (2018)
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Nancy Kline (4)Being Profoundly Interested in What You Think Nancy KlineListening Is Not a Passive Act, It Is a Very Powerful Action Nancy KlineListening to See Where You Will Go Continue reading Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline
We often use words like thinking, reasoning, and cognition interchangeably, but they refer to different layers of how we engage with the world internally. Drawing clear distinctions between them helps us become more aware of how we process information, make decisions, and navigate complexity. Cognition: The Broad Landscape Cognition is the most encompassing of the three. It refers to all the … Continue reading Introduction: Thinking Together Cognition, thinking and reasoning
Thinking doesn’t happen only in solitude. It comes alive in conversation, especially when we face tension, contradiction, or competing truths. In times like these, we need to learn how to think with each other, not just talk at or past each other. Continue reading Dialectical Thinking Practicing dialectical thinking in complex times
Colonialism has historically referred to the domination and control of one group or nation over another. However, the language of colonialism has recently been used to describe other forms of control and dominance. Continue reading Avoiding Modern-day Colonialism Colonialism: the dominance, control, and exploitation by one group over another
Knowledge and cognition extend beyond our brains, involving people and objects around us. This distributed cognition means our thinking and decision-making are influenced by external factors. Understanding this can improve how we approach problem-solving and collaboration. Continue reading The Extended Mind The power of distributed cognition
Think Together: Thinking is not just something we do alone. Our deepest insights often arise in conversation, shaped by diverse perspectives and the connections between us. “Think Together” is about creating the space to explore differences, listen carefully, and allow new ideas to emerge that none of us could reach alone. Continue reading Think Together A Conversational Leadership Practice Area
Conversation in Hong Kong The Huawei Break the Book Community Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close On 16th March 2017, I ran a Knowledge Café in London for NetIKX (The Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange) – an independent community Continue reading Gurteen Knowledge Café: Entrenched and Entrained Thinking A blog post by Conrad Taylor
Entrenched thinking is the lack of desire or ability to accept new ideas — to venture outside the entrenchments https://conversational-leadership.net/gurteen-knowledge-cafe-entrenched-and-entrained-thinking/ Continue reading Entrenched Thinking ** The lack of desire or ability to accept new ideas
