Thinking is fun

"it takes so little effort to exceed your own expectations"

I'm often asked how do I come up with the ideas for the Truthteller site? It's really quite easy since I figured out a little secret. Of course I'll share it with you (if you'll buy me a beer).

I made quite the discovery when I was on holidays in Mexico this past January. It changed my world. I learned how to think!

You laugh, but no one ever taught me this vital skill. Oh, I could operate in this world and get by reasonably well, but thinking was difficult. Parroting others was easier. I could function by following the thoughts of others. My information was gleaned from books, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio. Original thought was scarce at best.

Then one day I was sitting alone by the ocean, in the early morning, when my 'eureka' moment hit me. It opened the flood gates on my brain and ideas started pouring out. The idea for this blog was born at that moment. I was so excited I almost wet my pants!

It was so damn simple that I was convinced that I must have been born with a few less brain cells than most, to not have realized it earlier. But now amigos, as they say, 'the genie was out of the bottle'.

Enough already, I can hear you say! Tell us Eduardo, this great secret you speak of? Ok, hold onto your shorts, here it is....

'SILENCE, STILLNESS AND SOLITUDE'

Incredible huh? If you have the BIG 3, silence, stillness and solitude, then your brain opens up like the flowers to the mornings sun. Ideas will start popping up all over the dang place. You are on your way to discovering your inner genius.

So why don't they teach this stuff in school? Why don't more people practice this simple technique. Glad you asked grasshopper!

You see most people are too busy to think. They think that they are being productive if they are busy. Sometimes they are being productive, doing efficiently, what doesn't need to be done. Thinking is like a foreign language to them. They just don't understand that they are parroting and not thinking.

"It's not that you can't afford the time to be quiet and still. It's that you can't afford not to"

So there you have amigos. If you want to open your mind and let your inner genius out, all you have to do is get some of the good stuff....quiet, stillness and solitude!

Once all the world's noise is absent, then nature wants to fill the vaccum (with thoughts). All that is required of you is to monitor the thoughts coming your way. If the thinking is negative....reject it. If it's positive....accept it. Later on, record it. The result is thinking, the fun and easy way.

Where do I find my quiet, stillness and solitude? In the car, in the shower, in my office, but best of all....in nature. Something about nature inspires me. Particularly being close to water seems to jump start my brain. I'm sure you can think of your own place to escape the distractions and noise of the world?

WARNING: I can not be held responsible for all the good things that might come your way, as a result of your implementing the Truthteller concepts!

Eduardo

"you can be mediocre at anything, just make a minimum of effort and don't bother with that stupid thinking thing"