THE ART OF THINKING -

THE ART OF THINKING  

THOUGHTS ON THINKING

by  Wm Henry Cash Jr.   1927 - 2012  

Written 1949 

The Art of thinking is the art of being one's self.

Exterior solitude is the reduction of human beings and even of objects around us to a minimum.

Concentration is the elimination,

one after another,

of all images foreign to a train of thought.

Many people are professionally trained to THINK.

People, who cannot concentrate, are conscious of

heaviness nullifying every intelligent effort, or, 

of volatility precluding but a tip-of-the-wing

contact with the object of attention.

Inferiority complex is responsible for many

who fail to learn how to concentrate.

Nervousness is an obstacle for 

concentration.

INTEREST PRODUCES CONCENTRATION.

Concentration is attained by 

eliminating images

not harmonious to our trend of thought.

One way to concentrate

is to take a pen or pencil

and write down what our mind

will dictate.   

Every person's imagination

is an art gallery

PICTURES

IMAGES

IDEAS

VISUALIZATION

IMAGINING

We can not help thinking

no more than we can help breathing.

GREAT THOUGHTS ARISE FROM THE HEART.

Good Books should cause us to think.

Reading Books that cause us to Think is the Goal.

We should mentally go over what we remember.

We should try to remember what is important.

We should remember great lives and great deeds.

Sometimes our best thinking is 

when

we do not suppose we 

are thinking !  

THOUGHTS FROM HENRY

We should limit ourselves to only recording 

what we know.

Notes are ESSENTIAL to preserve thoughts.

We should consider both sides of

an argument, 

then

come to our 

own conclusion.

We should see the 

relationship

between

IDEAS and FACTS 

NEVER SEE A THING

WITHOUT VISUALIZING ANOTHER BESIDE IT.

Some people are able to think freely

and charmingly

in speaking,

but 

not in writing.

Some people are able to write freely

but are not 

able to write it out

in the same way.

Our mind is like our eye it must be SINGLE.

Children have to be educated, but they

also have to be lifted to 

education themselves.

EDUCATION is a mental training aiming at 

a greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is,

whether education does not often strain

instead of train the mind.  

HINDRANCES TO ACCURATE THINKING ARE:

I. UNDEFINED TERMS.

II. UNFINISHED TERMS.

III. COLORED TERMS.

IV. ABSTRACT TERMS.

V. AMBIGUOUS TERMS.  

ALL CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING IS

WITH AN AIM IN VIEW.