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Originally Posted by MgC  I think another worthwhile question to ask yourself is, what are you passionate about? Steve is obviously very passionate about helping others, and doing so he uses his talents of deep thinking, as well as writing and so on. But if you are not passionate, you will lose focus and you will not follow through with your desire to think deeply. Find something that just drives you...something that you could talk about for hours at a time with enthusiasm, and go from there. If it is spirituality, read and study the great thinkers of history, as well as from our time. If you are driven to help people better themselves financially, focus on that. Find what you feel strongly about, and study it and think deeply about it. This will give you the practice that the others are talking about, and it will give you the inspiration you need to think outside the box. |
I've been working a lot on the area of passion and talents/strengths lately, so I'll share my findings as it relates to "deep thinking" and what I believe was at the core of Selmanito's post (Selmanito made the thread) -- discovering your (or rather, his) talents/strengths...
Passion, purpose, and being aligned with "spirit" is something I'm currently working on. I've got the intellect talent/strengths stuff down (at least, enough to manipulate them easily enough and do what I need to do), and I'd say my consciousness includes a lot of energy from the "reason" level (I don't think we're really ever on "one" level; I tend to shift around, and while if I'm put under pressure I may go down to a certain level, if I'm in an ideal environment, the reverse is also true and I may start embodying levels such as love, etc).
Anyway, I've personally found that, while knowing your strengths is powerful, it's got nothing to what life's like when you live centered in the moment, using your talents/strengths, and following some sort of intuitive calling (I'd call it "purpose", but I've currently re-assessing my definition of purpose and making it less vague).
But I think I'll stop rambling before I get started since this is new ground for me and nothing I could say is really certain. I dislike expressing things that people may interpret as some sort of "truth" when I see them as mere possibilities or theories.
As Erin and a few of you said earlier, deep-thinker types tend to question things from multiple perspectives until they come out with a really elegant solution. It may not necessarily be a "truth" (ie. something objectively, universally true for everyone), but it probably holds up well enough that the core idea is universally applicable. At least, that's my criteria when I'm thinking. I'm not happy unless my mental model of reality explains what it does and does not work with other people. Unclear, vague thinking isn't tolerated, or at least, the vagueness of a concept it accepted as such and not seen otherwise. This is handy, because it lets you work on other things even when you don't understand something. Otherwise I'd be trying to figure stuff out all the time and never getting anything done.
Speaking of getting things done...
