Uninterrupted

Chapter 213

our current culture is diminishing uninterrupted thinking - Newport

Thinking in general is in danger, but uninterrupted thinking is all but non-existent. Thinking has fallen to the wayside. Not valued very highly by much of anyone. This is super awful. All the big breakthroughs happen because of thinking. So yes some are doing it, but imagine what could happen if we all were thinking instead of the 1%!?! The problems we could solve and the changes we could make!?! Think about it !  Well . . .  if you can remember how.

Thinking is a lost skill and its rarely taught anywhere. It is something I learned later in life and I am still completely a novice at it. Good thinkers are people I do everything possible to hang out with and spend time with. There are still too few of them in my life! I am always looking for more!

But thinking without interruption is a special category. It is thinking long enough to get to much better conclusions and results, than just mere thinking. If I get a 10 minute window of uninterrupted thinking here or there throughout the course of a day, that is astonishing. But I am certain that Newport is talking about hours of uninterrupted thinking. The kind of uninterrupted time that can now only happen by careful design.

I have only experienced this when I travel to Asia and I plan a couple of weeks of downtime, and there is no one with me on the trip. I am alone and free to fully imbibe all the thinking time I can handle - which isn’t hours and hours. Because I have been trained by the rest of my life to only think in 10 minute segments. Folks its like a muscle you have to build up and then maintain.

Start designing for it.

Start working out.