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"We only a labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

__ Michel de Montaigne

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"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

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-----------> I’d like to deal with the history part first, because it’s something that lots of people don’t know but that I am lucky enough to benefit from directly. The usual story about the “humans as computers” metaphor goes like this:

Humans have always compared thinking to their most impressive technology, hydraulics or clockwork say computers are just the latest in a long line of this. Every other metaphor has failed, so will this one.

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How thinking changes your life

What is Thinking? Thinking is the cognitive process, the use of everything from long-term memory to come to an end or solution to the problem.

In everyday language, we have been using the term “thinking” with a wide variety of meanings. The phrase thinks better means for a more favorable opinion, think twice to reconsider, or think again, think up to invent, contrive plan, etc. Webster’s New World Dictionary (1988) defines the word think, as the general word which means to exercise mental faculties to form ideas arrive at conclusions, etc.

Thinking is an incredibly complex process and must difficult concept in psychology to define and explain. Philosopher has argued for a generation about the meaning of thinking. In the field of psychology, thinking refers to the active mental process. Psychologists defined thinking as the manipulation (handle) of the mental representation of information.

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Thinking Is A Symbolic Process

Thinking is defined as the memory representations or symbols for a purpose. While executing mental actions and implementing decisions, individuals take the help of visual representations or mental images of persons or objects.

Thinking Is A Sub-Vocal Talking

Thinking is a private process, the inner workings of an individual as well as a mechanical activity of the person. Thinking is neither an activity confined to the head nor directly observable.

Thinking Is Fulfilling A Need or Problem Solving

It is always initiated by a problem and ends with its solution. It is evident when we produce new meanings, beliefs, and plans to solve problems or make decisions. Some problems are easy to solve while others require great effort, concentration, patience, and thought.

Elements of Thought

Thinking uses tools and instruments of various kinds. These are the elements that help to work our thinking effectively. Some of these are mental images, concepts, and propositions.

Concepts

Concepts are the mental representation of a class of objects, people, events, and things that share common characteristics. e.g., animals, furniture, vegetables, etc. Cauliflower, beans, and cabbages are examples of the concepts of vegetables. Red, green, and white are the concepts of colors. The flower is a concept, but an individual flower is not a concept. The word mother is a concept, but my mother is not a concept. Similarly, the sun, and moon, are not concepts.

Propositions

Thinking involves languages, percepts, and symbols to give meaning to our thinking process. Propositions describe the mental manipulation of these cognitive skills (languages, mental images, concepts) for meaningful relationships to what we are thinking. Propositions form mental models which guide our knowledge structure with objects places and events of the world around us.