How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)

by The School of Life

A talented artist is, first and foremost, someone who takes us into the specifics of valuable experiences.

The more the artist moves from generalities to specifics, the more the scene comes alive in our minds.

It is a distinctive quirk of our minds that few of the emotions we carry in them are properly acknowledged, understood or truly felt.

Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have.

We take the first steps towards effective intelligence by determining some of the ways in which our minds deny, lie, evade, forget, obsess and steer us towards goals that won’t deliver the satisfaction of which we’re initially convinced. A readiness to mitigate the worst of our everyday foolishness contributes to the highest kind of intelligence of which we may ever be capable.