What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

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What Is Called Thinking?
What Is Called Thinking?
If You Were A Motivational Speaker What Would You Say?

If You Were A Motivational Speaker What Would You Say?

Or, Why I May Be An Anti-Motivational Speaker

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Zohar Atkins
Jan 11, 2021
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If You Were A Motivational Speaker What Would You Say?
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The question has at least three components:

1) What do you want people to do?

2) How will you persuade them to do it?

3) Who do you want to persuade?

Paradoxically, I would like to tell highly motivated people to chill out and accept that much that they think is in their control is not.

Besides being a performative contradiction (how will they know if their…

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