TFY CHAPTER 1 SUMMARY
OBSERVATION SKILLS: WHAT’S OUT THERE
If we want to develop more conscious thinking habits, we have to first observe our own thinking processes so we can recognize our strengths and weaknesses.
Careful observation can help us see details that contain the key to unlocking problems or arriving at insights. It can also help us discover new knowledge.
Observation is a process of sensing, perceiving, and thinking. Sensing is collecting data through the sense organs. Perceiving is holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it. Thinking organizes our perceptions.
Careful observation requires us to stay awake, take our time, give full attention, suspend thinking in an attitude of listening.
The rewards of cultivating observation skills are self- understanding, creativity, rapture, power, and wonder.
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