Try to track your thoughts for a minute - during this time not one or even two thoughts will fly through your head, you will skip from topic to topic and perceive it as a standard thought process. Your thoughts do not belong to you. Not you, but they rule you. We randomly clings to an idea in the hope of holding on to it, but suddenly we drop it and move on to another. This process is very fast, and we do not have time to track it.
You do not realize how uncontrollable thoughts are. It’s hard for us to concentrate on anything. We do not like to solve complex problems, because attention is straining. We rarely achieve our goals, because we need a constant concentration of thoughts and a vision of the end result. We are not able to draw up a working plan because we do not see the structure of the goal. And how to go to the goal when you don’t know where you are going?
In this situation, there is only one way out - to change the way of thinking. For people, the concept of right thinking is blurry and abstract: what determines correctness? What are the criteria for correctness? How to develop the right thinking?
It all starts with thought, each action was preceded by thought. They say that thought is material and it is. Each correctly formed thought will entail an action, that is, it will materialize. But in order to generate the right thoughts, it is important to learn to think accordingly.
Thinking is the ability of the brain to perceive reality and influence it. A person asks a question and tries to find an answer to it - in this way reasoning is born that helps to know reality.
To cognize reality, many options of thinking are used. But there are three types that directly affect the picture of perception of the world.
Logical thinking
It makes it possible to adequately perceive the world and is basic. It was logical thinking that helped humanity to make the first scientific discoveries in the New Age, which entailed the rapid improvement of science and society.
Critical thinking
This is the second level of development. A critically thinking person checks all the information; it is difficult to convince him of anything. He needs irrefutable evidence and arguments. The symbiosis of logical and critical thinking is called scientific.
Creative thinking
The pinnacle of the human mind. It is expressed in the ability to invent and create a new, hitherto unknown to the world. A creatively thinking person generates original solutions to problems or problems. Creativity is pure creation.
In a harmoniously developed person there are parts of each type of consciousness. Their symbiosis represents the standard type of thinking, when a person can clearly follow thoughts, filter out unnecessary ones and generate fresh ideas from them.
Components of consciousness
The thought process consists of external and internal sources:
- External sources are all kinds of tasks and objective data.
- Internal sources - desires, dreams and attitudes.
Tasks and objective data provide the brain with food for thought and trigger thought processes from the outside.
Desires and dreams distort the picture of the world. A person who dreams a lot cannot adequately perceive reality; he seems to fall out of reality and live in his own world. Such people are poorly adapted to independent life and achieve little. But this does not mean that you can’t dream. Dreams are the driving force behind our actions. You just need to know the measure.
Negative attitudes bring thinking to stereotyped when concepts and decisions are used out of habit. Often our beliefs do not correspond to reality, and instead of making life easier, they complicate it. Since we see only that which is consistent with attitudes, many moments are missing from our lives that could open new opportunities and expand horizons for us.
Pink dreams and old attitudes lead to the fact that a person is poorly oriented in the surrounding reality. He cannot live consciously, he is overcome by psychological problems, things do not add up, circumstances cease to obey and subordinate a person. Often such people live either in the past or in the future, but not in the present. To manage your life, you need to manage actions, and for this you need to learn how to manage your thoughts.
Proper thinking is a way of thinking in which the rules of sequence, logic, and action are respected.
A correctly constructed thought will give an unmistakable result. In order to achieve goals, the mind must work for you, so carefully monitor what you think and how.
How to think?
Requirements for proper thinking:
- Certainty - the accuracy and rigor of the thesis.
- Consistency is the logical structure of thought.
- Consistency is the absence of mutually exclusive thoughts.
- Validity - the presence of arguments confirming the truth of thought.
Say no to vague, vague, and distracted thoughts in your head. Only clear and concise thoughts will lead to the goal.
Idea Evaluation Criteria
Principles of proper thinking:
- Concentration on the essence of things.
- Use only reliable facts.
- The ability to analyze and structure significant amounts of information.
- The ability to logically complete thoughts.
- The ability to find effective ways to solve problems.
- Lack of substitution of concepts in the same terms.
- Unambiguous unambiguous reasoning on an issue in which clarity is lacking.
- Comprehensive verification of evidence of judgment.
Based on these signs, you will analyze your thoughts and understand what points should be worked on.
Basis of thoughts
Elements of proper thinking:
- Knowledge - helps to save time on the collection of information and immediately separate unnecessary and unreliable theories, see the possibilities of solving the problem more precisely. If you know a lot, then it’s harder to trick you.
- Practice - helps to verify judgments and gain experience. No amount of knowledge can replace one good practice.
- Experience - helps to solve problems, make decisions correctly, build relationships with people harmoniously. Experience makes it possible to competently navigate the world and its tasks.
- Logic - combines algorithm, knowledge, practice and experience into an understandable structure.
- The discipline of thought is the ability to concentrate on one or more interconnected thoughts and bring them to their logical conclusion.
More focus is on the discipline of thinking. It leads us along the paths of thoughts and helps to keep our attention on the main thing. Thanks to her, we filter out unnecessary thoughts and save time.
To build a new type of thinking, it is important to develop all the components. Qualitative, well-acquired, knowledge will give in practice a greater understanding of the subject and first-class experience. And logic with discipline organize this process so that everything goes smoothly, quickly and with maximum benefit.
The subject of the study of logic
Logic studies human thinking. She is not interested in our thoughts, she is interested in the process, how we do it. The process of building abstracts is subject to logical forms and laws.
Logic Forms
The form of correct thinking is a scheme and ways of organizing thoughts. Thinking always exists in some form.
- Concept - means an object or feature of an object and reflects its most significant properties.
- Judgment - these are related concepts, affirming or denying something, which are displayed in the consciousness of the individual in the form of properties and characteristics of the object under study.
- Inference - a new judgment follows from two or more initial judgments.
Thus, an idea is formed about the things and phenomena of the objective world. The thought process begins with the formation of the concept of an object based on its properties. For example, a book. Its main properties are that it is made of paper and contains text. By these properties one can distinguish a book from a non-book. Then, from this information, a judgment is born that all books contain printed text and that books are made of paper. From these propositions we conclude that Pushkin's collection of poems is a book. These forms work not only in combination, but also separately.
Laws of logic
The laws of correct thinking are the objective foundations and principles of logic that lead reasoning to genuine conclusions.
- The law of identity - the idea is clear, precise and simple (every A is A).
- The law of contradiction - if one proposition rejects something, while another claims it, then they cannot be true at the same time (A is not A).
- The law of the excluded third is that any judgment is either genuine or erroneous (either A or not A).
- The law of sufficient reason - each idea, in order to be valid, must be confirmed by reasoned conclusions (A, because B).
The laws of good thinking are always and everywhere. It does not matter who you are, who your interlocutor is, whether you believe in them or not. They are irreplaceable and indestructible. By violating the laws and forms of right thinking, you run the risk of making false conclusions.
Practical benefits
Any skill needs to be developed. Logically correct thinking is no exception. For a month you will not see an explicit result. This is a long process that can take more than one year. But it all depends on the person and his individual characteristics. To track changes that will occur, use the list. Once a month or six months, mark the results that you have achieved, just be objective towards yourself.
Benefits of developing proper thinking:
- You quickly and fruitfully get rid of problems of any complexity.
- It’s easier for you to resist manipulation.
- You can better navigate the flow of information, filtering out dubious and false.
- You can look at the essence of things without being distracted by outsiders.
- You perceive the world adequately, without illusions.
- You are the master of your thoughts and only you decide what and when to think.
- You develop creativity and flexibility of thinking.
- Absolute concentration of attention.
- Instant and clear analysis of options and choosing the best.
- You are not afraid of all the problems, because you can find a solution to any problem.
- You can achieve any goals.
For people, proper thinking is the first step to studying their inner world. Expanding the boundaries of consciousness will give new perspectives in personal development and growth.
Development plan
This list contains specific steps to help develop logic.
The development of proper thinking:
- Drop out dreams and desires that never come true.
- Do not waste your energy on them.
- Get rid of harmful attitudes, which in your head are in the form of steady thoughts. Replace them with useful and correct beliefs.
- Play checkers, chess, solve puzzles and special logic puzzles.
- Meditate to learn how to turn off the flow of thoughts.
- Walk daily for at least an hour in the fresh air.
- Change your activity every hour to keep your brain toned.
- Arrange yourself information diets to rid your mind of unnecessary thoughts and information junk.
- Set clear goals for yourself to make them easier to achieve.
- Go in for sports.
- Once a month, analyze your life, learn to analyze the past in order to act logically in the future.
- Look at the world really.
- Read detective stories, they will teach you how to build logical chains.
- Keep a diary and a diary. Writing will help to structure your thoughts and get rid of garbage in your head.
Changing the way we think, we change ourselves. New thinking will provide an opportunity to look at yourself from a new angle. You will acquire useful habits that will help you cope with everyday tasks more effectively, learn to better understand the motives and actions of people, improve communication skills, change your life for the better and go to a new level of development.
Remember that logic and right thinking go hand in hand. However, in the pursuit of strict logic, do not forget about creativity. After all, this is what gives the taste of life. Be creative realists. Create and create!