What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

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What Is Called Thinking?
What Is Called Thinking?
Are You an Author, Editor, or Collector?

Are You an Author, Editor, or Collector?

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Zohar Atkins
Oct 19, 2020
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Are You an Author, Editor, or Collector?
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No doubt, these categories blur, but let’s put it this way:

  • Authors generate

  • Editors revise

  • Collectors curate

Each mode is a kind of creation. The God of Genesis 1-3 is an author. But the God of the Flood story is an editor, as it were—creating through subtraction.

Collecting is distinct from both authoring and editing in that you are neither bringing forth …

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