Know how to think-Know what to think

Information, Information and Information! We are surrounded by it. From our morning to last touch of our phones/laptops/i pads, we are feeding on Information. This is good, not only good, this is best thing that has happened to the mankind. I mean, seriously, we don’t need to wait for the newspaper waalas to come and throw newspaper at our doorstep and get updated instead we throw tons of unsuitable words to our internet provider the moment we realize that the dabba(router) which gives us access to the information is not working.

This easy access to information has given us the access to information, but it has also put a cap on our thinking capabilities. We have forgotten that knowledge is a process, a process which simultaneously moves with thinking. We acquire the information and then that’s it! We don’t think upon that. We are memorizing the information. If we are given some task, and are asked to work upon that task. We choose the old systematized way, the way we have memorized to solve a problem rather than to think about the problem for a minute, two minutes or even for 10 minutes (depending on the deadline), rather than to go and search for the solutions from a book, internet or anywhere and then begin our work on that issue. But, rather than doing this, we just start our work on that without thinking and there comes a line of difference between a thinker and a non-thinker. The ‘Thinker’ in this case knows how to think and hence he/she knows what to think but the ‘Non-Thinker’ individual relies on the prior information and he/she doesn’t know how to think in a new way and hence don’t know what to think.

The ‘Thinker’, in fact has an fair idea about how to use his/her mind by breaking the chains of older/rusted information. What we read on the internet is good, but it is more important that we don’t get stuck to that information and kill our own thinking.

We have been gifted with the most powerful tool, The Brain, we should not kill our think tank by not utilizing its power of Thinking.

Get information, but think before using it.

‘When you realize how to think, it empowers you far beyond from those who know only what to think’.

             -Neil deGrasse Tyson