{"id":157106,"date":"2019-07-21T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T03:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=157106"},"modified":"2019-07-21T20:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T03:47:51","slug":"active-vs-reactive-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/21\/active-vs-reactive-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Active vs Reactive Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active thinking: thoughts which arise when you let your mind go empty and fallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reactive thinking: you must read or expose yourself to external stimuli in order to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When do your thoughts come to you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active thinking: happens when you go on long and pointless walks, when working out at the gym (no headphones or music), when taking a shower or in the sauna, or when you let your mind wander or get bored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reactive thinking: always checking email, reading news, social media, etc. Inability to let yourself get bored and &#8220;do nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do reactive thoughts have any merit?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe we need more active thinking. Perhaps these thoughts are more unique, higher quality, and contain more depth or profundity. Perhaps only active thoughts have true merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reactive thinking: mostly a rehash of other (unoriginal) ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long story short, follow your own gut, obey your own taste, and cultivate yourself. Cultivate your own culture into yourself, and propagate it with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Share your ideas, art works, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thrive on!<br>\nERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active thinking: thoughts which arise when you let your mind go empty and fallow. Reactive thinking: you must read or expose yourself to external stimuli in order to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/usc-eric-kim-photography-black-and-white-ricoh-gr-iii-21mm-49.jpg?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157107,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157106\/revisions\/157107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}