Thinking About Thinking

As a person puts on new garments, giving up the old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Text 22, p. 89

As mentioned in an earlier post the Oracle of Ottawa has been involved in a little side project about thinking. Taking the advice of Peter Drucker, who by the way I was quite surprised to learn did a stint as a philosophy prof early in his life, that you should ponder all the activities in your life and decide what is working and what is not. It sounds really stupid at first glance but try it. I have discovered that it is the things that you hardly even acknowledge, that are going all gang busters. But the old ambitions is what takes up all your time. The key to success is stop doing the things that are not going well and give more time to the things that are going really well.

Getting all Hegelian...

You will soon discover that it is the thinking that makes the real money, not the "working", which is totally of course the absolute inverse to the way most of us in the Western world were raised. The Oracle of Ottawa is nearly totally convinced that ignoring this process can take years off your life or your life itself! It was in the Grundrisse that Karl Marx said something about a man cannot become a child again as he will only become childish. For this humble blogger this is one of the greatest quotes of Karl Marx. 

If one lives long enough and gets in the habit of regular and dangerous reflection, you soon have to face the fact that life is all pretty Hegelian all in and after all. The actual process of the now is the result and cause of change. It is the Classical Dialectic in reverse. And it all grinds on with infinite torque. The key is to understand the process...

Love him or hate him, he just won't go away..