Ideas, Reflections and Speculations
Seeing clearly hurts, that's why you see cloudily
Self-help is always an invitation to submit one's own thinking, critical thinking, to the thinking and experience of another. Critical thinking is the exercise of questioning one's own thinking. Only after that should you even think about directing your attention to someone else's thinking.
The sales people
The sold are the ones unable to see the falseness of their absolute and indelible truths. They are the ones blinded by the need, which has become belief, to always be right. These are the ones who accumulate truths without ever surrendering to the possibility of being wrong.
The emotional bureaucrats
Bureaucracy is like a forced, fabricated nihilism, which pushes us into senseless actions, with no purpose other than the fulfilment of imposed rules through the mindless repetition of certain rituals. The consequence, as we can observe and experience in our daily lives, is the diminishing of the condition that makes us human: our capacity to create and to imagine and to think ourselves.
The positive effects of negative thinking
Facilitating the process of learning and change can often involve accepting difficulties, creating coping strategies and developing qualities and skills that come from negative thinking.
Lack of thinking
In this world in which we live, excited and entertained by technological and scientific advances, which constantly pushes us in the directions of productivity, efficiency and effectiveness, happiness at all costs, permanent balance, forced creativity, etc., the space to think seems to be lacking.