Thursday, May 8, 2008

chapter1: observation skills: what's out there?

chapter summary

1. if we wan to develop more conscious thinking habits, we have to first observe our own thinking process so we can recognize our strength and weaknesses.

2. careful observation can help us see details that contain the key to unlocking problems or arriving at insights, it can also help us discover new knowledge.

3. observation is a process of sensing, perceiving, and thinking. sensing is collecting data through the sense organs. perceiving is holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it.


4. careful observation requires us to stay awake, take our time, give full attention, suspend thinking in an attitude of listening.

5. the rewards of cultivating observation skills are self-understanding, creative, rapture, power, and wonder.

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