This book has really made me think about what I thought of the world when I was a little child and then an older child.
Here’s the thing, no adult ever asked me anything about my beliefs so any thoughts I had weren’t put into speech or writing. And because of that I have to try to remember original thoughts rather than recall an action. It’s not easy.
I expect like most people I like to think I was smart and didn’t have silly ideas. But that’s not true, I was a kid , I didn’t have theories, for example the ground was the ground and I thought no more about it.
Thanks for unpacking that. That’s fascinating because I think I had the opposite experience. We were taught to question/argue/think about how things worked (one parent in particular was very big on science and science thinking)…so on one hand I find it hard when people can’t logic themselves out of conspiracies and such…on the other hand I have spent a LOT of time reprogramming the ‘thoughts first, feelings second’ approach to life. And I know from depression that logic can take you to a Baaad place when it’s built on a faulty core belief. Only in the last few years have I been able to experience the ground as just the ground.
Thanks!
This book has really made me think about what I thought of the world when I was a little child and then an older child.
Here’s the thing, no adult ever asked me anything about my beliefs so any thoughts I had weren’t put into speech or writing. And because of that I have to try to remember original thoughts rather than recall an action. It’s not easy.
I expect like most people I like to think I was smart and didn’t have silly ideas. But that’s not true, I was a kid , I didn’t have theories, for example the ground was the ground and I thought no more about it.
Thanks for unpacking that. That’s fascinating because I think I had the opposite experience. We were taught to question/argue/think about how things worked (one parent in particular was very big on science and science thinking)…so on one hand I find it hard when people can’t logic themselves out of conspiracies and such…on the other hand I have spent a LOT of time reprogramming the ‘thoughts first, feelings second’ approach to life. And I know from depression that logic can take you to a Baaad place when it’s built on a faulty core belief. Only in the last few years have I been able to experience the ground as just the ground.
Makes me fascinated by this psychology.