¶ Thinking
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Thinking:
"name? ‘We both know it well!’ And tomorrow you recall it about the same time that I recall it. The process was subconscious. Our feedbacks have lags. They are not instantaneous. But we find that the time lags of our feedbacks vary greatly.
"We ask ourselves questions all day long-- sometimes very minor questions-- and our feedback, unbeknownst to our consciousness, goes right off searching our subconsciously stored, special-case experience files for the answers. So when you lie down and want to go to sleep you are often bothered by many thoughts. These are simply feedbacks to questions you asked earlier and have forgotten that you asked.
“The thinking self-discipline is accomplished by keeping all the feedback messengers in the waiting room while you discover and consider the interrelationships of one particular set of experiences.”
¶ Citations
- NASA speech, p.39, Jun’66
