# ‘What’ you think matters little compared to ‘how’ you think Created On: 12-27-2024 11:12 am Up:: [[Thinking (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- Thinking is often a “confining” experience… We don’t have phrases like “think outside of the box” because it is otherwise easy; the prompt implies that it requires *intentional effort* to think outside the constraints of your current thinking… Additionally, our thinking is often oriented toward producing a particular *outcome*, such as solving a specific problem, so it’s constrained/narrowed. But… The power of thought lies in *not* the “what” but the “how." The “how” is your trajectory toward *many* “whats,” and that orientation sets the course for the “whats” to be discovered. Wouldn’t you prefer to understand all those “whats” and discern and weigh them against each other? Doesn’t that make a well-rounded thinker… Maybe it’s not pragmatic, but… What in life that’s genuinely complex is pragmatic? The quick fixes and answers are the half-truths and the misnomers. Yet, we bias toward them because they *feel good* and give us an artificial sense of completion… Resist that and embrace the [[Gray thinking]]… Be uncomfortable and forge a new path… Don’t just challenge *what you think*; **challenge *how* you think** to evolve.