Many people watch, listen, and read to hear their own half-formed thoughts given back to them in a more completed form.
This is not bad. People are busy. They can’t dedicate all their time to formulating ideas and pondering how best to express them. Their primary responsibility in life is different. And it’s all good. They kind of know where the answers lie and they look for books, podcasts, blogs, and articles to arrive at the verbal expression of what they intuit.
I, on the other hand, am one of those people whose whole job is to express thoughts. I know my own ideas because I literally sit at work for hours thinking about how better to express them. I don’t need help. Not because I’m superior. The guy who is doing my oil change as I write this is not superior to me, doing something I can’t. He’s doing his job. Thinking and formulating ideas is mine. The oil change dude and I are both important to society in our different roles.
Because I know exactly what my ideas are, I don’t seek out information sources that tell me what I know. I get tired from the contents of my mind because I spend so much time with it. Usually, people are distracted from the contents of their minds for hours a day by their jobs and other obligations. They seek information that brings them closer to their thoughts. I do the opposite. I try to take a break from mine.
Do I need to repeat that this doesn’t make anybody better or worse? It’s simply material circumstances of life.
I’ll continue later because the oil change is done.
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