Website review: The Battle for Our Minds | The Grow...
TheGrowingLife discovered this in Self Improvement
•10 reviews since Apr 29, 2008
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TheGrowingLife discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "The battle for our minds is the battle to think on our own terms and on our own timetable. It's the battle for freedom to let our minds wander, because the best thoughts emerge from the most unlikely places, and when we're lavishing ourselves with time. The best thoughts happen when we're staring out windows and daydreaming; they happen when we're looking at scenes like this (because we're really there)."
- solson rated 3 weeks ago
- I love this blog. This is it. This writing is dead on truth. I've been soooo bored with the whole personal development world, and then along come Clay in 2008. Rock On Clay!
- KavitaKampani rated 2 months ago
- Very good post.
- witchqueen13 rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Highly intelligent people are more likely to exchange their brainpower for money, and less likely to retain much of said brainpower for themselves. "
- largeGROUCH rated 3 months ago
- The Battle for Our Minds The battle for our minds usually isn't a struggle against brainwashing (although most of us are mildly brainwashed). The battle for our minds isn't usually about politics, consumer culture, and mass media. Nope. The battle for our minds is fought out every day in the workplace, and due largely to. . . The Paradox of Intelligence More intelligent people tend to have jobs that require very high levels of mental engagement (not to mention, longer work weeks). If you're a doctor, lawyer, accountant, consultant, teacher, etc., then chances are your thoughts are consumed by work-related activities (and that you have less-than-average amounts of free time). Highly intelligent people are more likely to exchange their brainpower for money, and less likely to retain much of said brainpower for themselves. They're more likely to enroll in mentally demanding graduate programs and accept mentally demanding jobs. (In the western world we're taught that if we have the capacity to be a doctor then it's somehow a "waste" to work retail, make smoothies for a living, or become a farmer -- even though a retailer worker, smoothie maker, or farmer get to own more of their thoughts). Hence, the paradox of intelligence (POI) says that in general, the more intelligent you are, the less brainpower you're likely to keep for yourself. The POI says that the smarter you are, the less you keep your mind for yourself. It says that the more intelligent you are, the greater the probability that an employer owns too much of your brainpower. As a result of this paradox, intelligent people are losing the battle for their minds. They simply have less mental energy at the end of the day to ask the bigger questions. They have less mental energy and time needed to gain perspective.
- ommeditation rated 3 months ago
- A most inspiring page - a great read for everyone.
- MonkMojo rated 3 months ago
- Clay sculpts another beauty: "The Paradox of Intelligence" "There are no perspective hacks. None."
- MenWithPens rated 3 months ago
- Fantastic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Take the time to think, people. And this post tells you why.
- Sundell rated 3 months ago
- A worthwhile read!
