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"Don't Believe Everything You Think"
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"Don't Believe Everything You Think"

Ten insights from the book that I finished reading not too long ago

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Franklin O'Kanu
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Thoughts versus thinking? Is there a difference between the two, or are they one and the same?

Ideally, we would think of these as similar, but in the article below, we find out that they’re vastly different - and we should do one over the other. We should have thoughts and avoid thinking. At first, this notion seems unorthodox (ha! - welcome to Unorthodoxy), but there’s a body of merit behind this. Speaking of bodies, our body is capable of generating thoughts! I touch on this in my article on the ocularcentric society.

The idea here is that our body is the source of our intellect, not our brains. When we need to solve a problem, instead of thinking about it, where we actively look for a solution, we need to take a step back and let our bodies look to solve the problem for us - hence giving us thoughts. When we understand the concept of the morphic resonance field, this notion makes complete sense.

In the following article, which was guest featured on The Pulse last month, I dive in…

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