Sunday, September 14, 2008

David Foster Wallace & Losing Control of Your Mind....


"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master."

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed."
t is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head." DWF

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