How do you "Think"? (42)
Thinking.....about thinking.....hmm where to start? I don't know what type of thinker I am but I think (for lack of a better analogy) in puzzles that are incomplete. What that means is that as I talk to someone their words fill in pieces of puzzles in my head. It gives me a clearer (in most cases) picture of what they want to convey. "Pieces" are made by all sorts of things including personal experience, empathy, deduction, or from things I've gotten from other people directly. Then things take a "left turn" and all the various possibilities unfold about what they are saying. Do they really know the "something" they are giving me or is there more to it? Does the piece they gave me fit? If not, why? (I'm a technician btw) I find it almost impossible to ask an inteligent question if I don't fully understand what I'm being told. I've been told that I'm a "literalist" which I tend to agree with I lack a better term :) If you know one, please let me know! If you asked someone to fix something or to give advice on a subject, wouldn't their understanding of the problem/situation be kind of be a desired prerequisite? Ok if your brain hasen't exploded by this point BRAVO! :-)
I know several individuals who can put the pieces together very quickly. I am amazed at that. Kinda like people who walk out of an exam half-hour after it started. (Had a friend once, however, who said the reason why she did it was because she looked at the exam paper and could not recognize a thing, so she just left. I, on the other hand, would have taken the entire time to cook something up for the examiner).
I know several individuals who can put the pieces together very quickly. I am amazed at that. Kinda like people who walk out of an exam half-hour after it started. (Had a friend once, however, who said the reason why she did it was because she looked at the exam paper and could not recognize a thing, so she just left. I, on the other hand, would have taken the entire time to cook something up for the examiner).
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your makin me think wayyyy too much
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Sorry about the bad quote Woadan.
(Memo to self: don't delete anything from the original quote)
(Memo to self: don't delete anything from the original quote)
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Claayer: Oo I think waaaayyy too much..
My mind is just a big ole blurr of bumpf most of the time..
Even I can't work it out.
My mind is just a big ole blurr of bumpf most of the time..
Even I can't work it out.
I have not been thinking lately. Help!!!
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Some options..........
1. Critical thinking - This is convergent thinking. It assesses the worth and validity of something existent. It involves precise, persistent, objective analysis. When teachers try to get several learners to think convergently, they try to help them develop common understanding.
2. Creative thinking - This is divergent thinking. It generates something new or different. It involves having a different idea that works as well or better than previous ideas.
3. Convergent thinking - This type of thinking is cognitive processing of information around a common point, an attempt to bring thoughts from different directions into a union or common conclusion.
4. Divergent thinking - This type of thinking starts from a common point and moves outward into a variety of perspectives. When fosering divergent thinking, teachers use the content as a vehicle to prompt diverse or unique thinking among students rather than a common view.
5. Inductive thinking - This is the process of reasoning from parts to the whole, from examples to generalizations.
6. Deductive thinking - This type of reasoning moves from the whole to its parts, from generalizations to underlying concepts to examples.
7. Closed questions - These are questions asked by teachers that have predictable responses. Closed questions almost always require factual recall rather than higher levels of thinking.
8. Open questions - These are questions that do not have predictable answers. Open questions almost always require higher order thinking.
1. Critical thinking - This is convergent thinking. It assesses the worth and validity of something existent. It involves precise, persistent, objective analysis. When teachers try to get several learners to think convergently, they try to help them develop common understanding.
2. Creative thinking - This is divergent thinking. It generates something new or different. It involves having a different idea that works as well or better than previous ideas.
3. Convergent thinking - This type of thinking is cognitive processing of information around a common point, an attempt to bring thoughts from different directions into a union or common conclusion.
4. Divergent thinking - This type of thinking starts from a common point and moves outward into a variety of perspectives. When fosering divergent thinking, teachers use the content as a vehicle to prompt diverse or unique thinking among students rather than a common view.
5. Inductive thinking - This is the process of reasoning from parts to the whole, from examples to generalizations.
6. Deductive thinking - This type of reasoning moves from the whole to its parts, from generalizations to underlying concepts to examples.
7. Closed questions - These are questions asked by teachers that have predictable responses. Closed questions almost always require factual recall rather than higher levels of thinking.
8. Open questions - These are questions that do not have predictable answers. Open questions almost always require higher order thinking.
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they call to much thinking day dreaming 
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1. Critical thinking - This is convergent thinking. It assesses the worth and validity of something existent. It involves precise, persistent, objective analysis. When teachers try to get several learners to think convergently, they try to help them develop common understanding.
This is me...BUT I don't overthink and overanalyze...because there is no need to...in order to get to the basic point......no matter how complicated we make things...it does and always will lead back to the basic point of the matter.....you can either take the long way around or the short route and reach an early conclusion.....
This is me...BUT I don't overthink and overanalyze...because there is no need to...in order to get to the basic point......no matter how complicated we make things...it does and always will lead back to the basic point of the matter.....you can either take the long way around or the short route and reach an early conclusion.....
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Lonely1: I understand that different individuals 'think' in different ways.
I myself am an 'Associative Thinker'. If I am speaking with someone and they mention a 'car accident', it will immediately bring to mind car accidents I was in, or I read about, or someone told me about. If I am not careful I would then begin to tell the person all about them in the next three hours.
I was told by a female friend that she is an "Imaginative Thinker". If see sees' her partner reading a book on "Unsolved Murders", especially if they had an argument last night about who left the cap off the toothpaste, alarm bells would begin to go off! She can remember the streets in a city she was in ten years ago, if she happens to be in the area again!!!
Another friend told me that when she gets up in the morning she thinks about everything she has to do. Not me. I think (?). Once I get up in the morning I go on autopilot until I have my coffee: Brush teeth. Shave. Get dressed. Make coffee.....
Am I just weird or what?
I myself am an 'Associative Thinker'. If I am speaking with someone and they mention a 'car accident', it will immediately bring to mind car accidents I was in, or I read about, or someone told me about. If I am not careful I would then begin to tell the person all about them in the next three hours.
I was told by a female friend that she is an "Imaginative Thinker". If see sees' her partner reading a book on "Unsolved Murders", especially if they had an argument last night about who left the cap off the toothpaste, alarm bells would begin to go off! She can remember the streets in a city she was in ten years ago, if she happens to be in the area again!!!
Another friend told me that when she gets up in the morning she thinks about everything she has to do. Not me. I think (?). Once I get up in the morning I go on autopilot until I have my coffee: Brush teeth. Shave. Get dressed. Make coffee.....
Am I just weird or what?
You are one weird dude, man, I'll give you that.
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Ambrose2007: You are one weird dude, man, I'll give you that.
Apologies to the Op but....... Ambrose, your piccies are really beginning to worry me
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gingerb: Some options..........
1. Critical thinking - This is convergent thinking. It assesses the worth and validity of something existent. It involves precise, persistent, objective analysis. When teachers try to get several learners to think convergently, they try to help them develop common understanding.
2. Creative thinking - This is divergent thinking. It generates something new or different. It involves having a different idea that works as well or better than previous ideas.
3. Convergent thinking - This type of thinking is cognitive processing of information around a common point, an attempt to bring thoughts from different directions into a union or common conclusion.
4. Divergent thinking - This type of thinking starts from a common point and moves outward into a variety of perspectives. When fosering divergent thinking, teachers use the content as a vehicle to prompt diverse or unique thinking among students rather than a common view.
5. Inductive thinking - This is the process of reasoning from parts to the whole, from examples to generalizations.
6. Deductive thinking - This type of reasoning moves from the whole to its parts, from generalizations to underlying concepts to examples.
7. Closed questions - These are questions asked by teachers that have predictable responses. Closed questions almost always require factual recall rather than higher levels of thinking.
8. Open questions - These are questions that do not have predictable answers. Open questions almost always require higher order thinking.
1. Critical thinking - This is convergent thinking. It assesses the worth and validity of something existent. It involves precise, persistent, objective analysis. When teachers try to get several learners to think convergently, they try to help them develop common understanding.
2. Creative thinking - This is divergent thinking. It generates something new or different. It involves having a different idea that works as well or better than previous ideas.
3. Convergent thinking - This type of thinking is cognitive processing of information around a common point, an attempt to bring thoughts from different directions into a union or common conclusion.
4. Divergent thinking - This type of thinking starts from a common point and moves outward into a variety of perspectives. When fosering divergent thinking, teachers use the content as a vehicle to prompt diverse or unique thinking among students rather than a common view.
5. Inductive thinking - This is the process of reasoning from parts to the whole, from examples to generalizations.
6. Deductive thinking - This type of reasoning moves from the whole to its parts, from generalizations to underlying concepts to examples.
7. Closed questions - These are questions asked by teachers that have predictable responses. Closed questions almost always require factual recall rather than higher levels of thinking.
8. Open questions - These are questions that do not have predictable answers. Open questions almost always require higher order thinking.
Thanks Gingerb, good post. I have read the textbook definitions and realize that I don't really fall into any of those categories. Please read my posts above and see.
What I am looking at is how people actually "Think" on a daily basis. Most of the time I am not even thinking - what a waste of brain power. Instead I am usually reading, watching a movie, or have the MP3 player glued to my ears.
Me? sitting on a park bench, or sitting on the bus daily without the above crutches? Highly unlikely. The problem is: most people on the bus are like me, it seems. Imagine: a bus load of people - Just sitting and Thinking! Eek!
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am always thinking about food don't know y thou
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coolieno1: am always thinking about food don't know y thou
In this time zone, it's always around dinner time when I sign on.
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coolieno1: am always thinking about food don't know y thou
and s-x too. Remember, we are men.
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coolieno1: am always thinking about food don't know y thou
Didn't realize how bright that sun was until I clicked your pic. What's the temp today?
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Meltdown! syntax error! system over load! to much thinking here! LMAO! 
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ace4169: Meltdown! syntax error! system over load! to much thinking here! LMAO!
Wow! there certainly is a lot going in there. Hope your fuse is still in good shape.
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Lonely1: Once I get up in the morning I go on autopilot until I have my coffee: Brush teeth. Shave. Get dressed. Make coffee.....
Am I just weird or what?
Or what. If you can do all that before you make coffee, you've got me way beat. Am I just weird or what?
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alabamabebe: Or what. If you can do all that before you make coffee, you've got me way beat.
Hi beautiful!
The last pic I saw of you was your butt!!
I have found that a good way to have a nice thoughtful day is to listen to lots of songs on my MP3 yesterday, so that today when the blank spaces enter my mind I can switch to replaying the songs from memory!
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Great thread as you can see.Very different then shower hygeine.Just wanted to comment.Do more please.
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I think too much.
and sometimes, i don't...at all.