Thinking
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You know, I'm up here bagging out inspiration, and you're thinking, "Jeez, Stella, aren't you inspired sometimes by some things?"
So if you're
thinking
about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.
And I started thinking, maybe there's a pattern here.
And as a mentor, I know what to do, which is to step up my support for the student, because research in psychology shows that if you're feeling fear and despair, your mind narrows down to very safe and conservative ways of
thinking.
And I saw scientists in other groups get stuck without even having a word to describe what they're seeing, and their ways of
thinking
narrowed down to very safe paths, their science didn't reach its full potential, and they were miserable.
That way of
thinking
got turned on its head when by chance I went to hear Evelyn Fox Keller give a talk about her experiences as a woman in science.
I would guess many of you are
thinking
of skim, scan, reading quickly.
Now, what I hope you're
thinking
right now is, "Wait, who's on the Usage Panel?
If you're thinking, "But that lets all of us decide what words mean," I would say, "Yes it does, and it always has." Dictionaries are a wonderful guide and resource, but there is no objective dictionary authority out there that is the final arbiter about what words mean.
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just
thinking
... Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
I remember
thinking
to myself, if only I knew what my life in each career would be like.
There's another reason for
thinking
that hard choices aren't choices between equally good options.
As post-Enlightenment creatures, we tend to assume that scientific
thinking
holds the key to everything of importance in our world, but the world of value is different from the world of science.
One of my first experiences that challenged this way of
thinking
was during the 2000 presidential elections.
There is nothing either good or bad, as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet," but
thinking
makes it so.
What I've done with it sitting still, going back to it in my head, trying to understand it, finding a place for it in my thinking, that's lasted 24 years already and will probably last a lifetime.
But what impressed me even more was that as I was waiting for my digital I.D., one Googler was telling me about the program that he was about to start to teach the many, many Googlers who practice yoga to become trainers in it, and the other Googler was telling me about the book that he was about to write on the inner search engine, and the ways in which science has empirically shown that sitting still, or meditation, can lead not just to better health or to clearer thinking, but even to emotional intelligence.
Now, I know some of you all are probably thinking, how did you find a great mentor in prison?
And this is the natural posture of a standing man, and I think this picture inspired Chris to insert me into the lateral
thinking
session.
Now, I'm going to give you a framework for
thinking
about this question, and the framework is very simple.
But even with what we've learned so far, we can see that by
thinking
carefully and by focusing on those problems that are big, solvable and neglected, we can make a truly tremendous difference to the world for thousands of years to come.
It's a model that's made with mathematics, and like the physical models of the 19th century, it's very important for
thinking
about causes.
So despite the popularity of the concept of paradigm shifts, what we find is that actually, really major changes in scientific
thinking
are relatively rare in the history of science.
Well, see, now I'm thinking, I'm in Manhattan, this is a bad analogy, but most Americans who don't live in Manhattan get up in the morning and get in their cars and turn on that ignition, and their cars work, and they work incredibly well.
This is, to me, the sound that mainframes are supposed to be making when they're
thinking
really hard.
So I looked at it at this level,
thinking
I was looking at the right thing, only to see this doesn't have the connectivity I would have expected for the code I was looking for.
I've been
thinking
a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years.
This is about a government and a people that care about the rest of the world and have the imagination and the courage to think outwards instead of only
thinking
selfishly.
That's still about us, and if we carry on
thinking
about us, we are in deep, deep trouble.
Or do I, on the other hand, prefer the idea of walking around the world with my head held high thinking, "Yeah, I'm proud to come from a good country"?
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