“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.” (Lorraine Hansberry) There was a time when the President of GM hired someone whose job was…to think. That’s right! Every day he’d just “think” and come up with ideas. I’ve found that some very good problem solutions have come to me when I just sat and let my mind work. It’s mysterious. The trouble is that often we don’t have time for it. ;-) Jack.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: My thinking usually turns into praying. It's hard for me to turn off my thought process and it drives me crazy sometimes. Thinking clears the mind. It would be nice to be paid to just think but I'm sure I would have problems thinking of certain ideas. I love to listen to others thoughts also. FROM JACK: During the thinking process I keep a pad of paper and a pen beside me in order to jot down ideas as they come. Afterward there's a sorting sorting out.....looking for the wheat among the chaff.
FROM IE IN MICHIGAN: The motivational speaker Zig Ziegler has actually recommended that everyone pick a "peaceful" section in one's home and place a comfortable "Thinking Chair" to create an appropriate mood as you sit in the chair & of course to use it daily at a set time.. FROM JACK: I used to have a teacher who would say, "Put on your thinking cap." I wonder if Zig had a thinking cap beside his thinking chair. Ziegler's ideas are usually good ones.
FROM MOLINER CF: What do you think about when you just sit and think? Do you spend too much time thinking about what to think about? Or don't you think about that? I'd like to know what you think about this thought. FROM JACK: I usually have a particular subject or problem that guides the thinking process, but sometimes I let my mind wander. It's surprising, what's discovered along the way. The slogan "WHAT IF...." located beside my computer is a thought guide also. MORE FROM CF: How do you think Edison thought of developing the light bulb? Something to think about. FROM JACK: Edison said: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." This seems to indicate that he was thinking 1% of the time.
FROM LG IN MICHIGAN: This reminds me of the "Listening Prayer" concept... I have this tiny little book that provides the basic explanation of it and many examples of its successful use, but in a nutshell, alone or with a group of people, one prays to the Holy Spirit the scripture (not sure exactly where passage is located off-hand) that asks the Lord to take captive every thought of one's own, so one's own thoughts don't contaminate the process. Then one prays scripture that the Holy Spirit will bind satan and all his demons such that they are also unable to contaminate the process by placing negative thoughts into one's mind... Then one prays for the insights being sought and sits and waits, pen and paper in hand, to hear from the Lord. I've had some amazing revelations from this process. Waiting on the Lord--it's worth the wait!! FROM JACK: I haven't heard of this before, but I guess that's why inspiration is called "IN"spiration. God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform.
FROM MOLINER TG: The story, as I've heard it told several times, was the first Henry Ford came up with the "thinker" job. As his company was soaring after the introduction of the assembly line and the $5 a day wage, a person interviewing Ford was being escorted around the factory and came across a man alone in a bare office when Ford made the comment that the man was just hired to "think". There was also Tom Watson Sr. the founder of IBM who has signs all around the company that said just "think". FROM JACK: Ford, IBM and GM have been successful to the extent that they wanted employees to THINK. I know I've told you before what I. B. Gilbert taught me...and it bears repeating: "Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!" (Jane Taylor)
FROM MO IN ILLINOIS: I HAVE MORE TIME NOW TO SIT AND THINK, IF I CHOOSE TO DO SO. IN THE HECTIC YEARS OF RAISING FOUR CHILDREN, TEACHING SCHOOL FULL TIME, DIRECTING CHURCH CHOIRS, AND ALL ELSE A PASTOR'S WIFE TRIES TO DO, RUNNING A HOUSEHOLD AND ENJOYING A SOCIAL LIFE, IT SEEMS THAT THINKING WASN'T A TOP PRIORITY! I HAVE NO DOUBT, HOWEVER THAT IT WOULD HAVE HELPED IN MANY, MANY SITUATIONS! IMAGINE HAVING A JOB TO DO FULL- TIME THINKING! AMAZING! HE/SHE MUST HAVE HAD A PRETTY FERTILE MIND!!! FROM JACK: It's all a matter of prioritizing time. As the line in the song goes: "There never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do." It seems to me that you made pretty good use of your time.
FROM NL IN INDIANA/FLORIDA: More people should do this before they open their mouths.
FROM BS NEAR ORLANDO: When I do this I fall asleep and out of the chair. How do U spell broken arm? Lots of Luv.
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