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How to use storytelling to influence and persuade
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Use the limits of reading by starting from where your writers left off.
Allow your favourite authors to inspire you to look at the world differently.
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The ultimate result of thinking for yourself is what Schopenhauer calls ‘the maturity of knowledge’, which is a state of total organic integration between thoughts and experiences. This maturity does not have to do with the power of one's intellect but the organisation of its contents.
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Apart from originality, authenticity and ownership are the primary intellectual virtues that come from thinking for yourself
Thinking for yourself enables a special kind of spontaneity, variety and responsiveness to your surroundings. Thinking for yourself does not force one specific thoug...
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The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer placed the highest value on thinking for yourself. If we lose the ability for independent thought, then we miss out on a key opportunity to become our authentic, original selves. If we don't think for ourselves, we will also not know what we should do, as oppos...
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Each of us discovered a great mind at one point whose writing captures exactly what we think or have been trying to think but couldn't find the right words for.
Yet, the powerful influence of this great mind is so potentially overwhelming that it threatens our ability to think for ourselve...
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Schopenhauer was never totally against reading. Seeing the world from someone else's perspective brings our attention to things we simply wouldn't have noticed.
Schopenhauer’s real point is that reading is best when it is accompanied by thinking for yourself. It's better to read a little a...
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Thinking for yourself does not mean you keep it all in your head. Your original thoughts demand to be put in an external form.
It could take the form of writing, a conversation, or even in forms of expression such as visual or musical arts.
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Schopenhauer was very clear: ‘Reading is a mere surrogate for one’s own thinking.'
Two main problems concerned him:
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Schopenhauer admits that reading is a better way of engaging with another person's mind because the writer's works may be richer in content than his company, the result and fruit of all his thinking and studying.
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