How to Think Clearly | The Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

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In this video, I talk about how to think clearly.
The better you get at thinking, the better you get at solving problems. And good thinking begins with clarity.
And if you want to think clearly and improve your ability to solve your own problems, organize your thoughts. Reduce their ambiguity and make them clear by turning them into simple if-then statements. Clear logic leads to clear thoughts. Clear thoughts lead to clear and intentional action. Clear and intentional action leads to clear feedback. Clear feedback leads to an improved understanding of the world. And a clearer understanding of the world leads to a better ability to solve problems.
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  • @nanditaroy2344
    @nanditaroy2344 Жыл бұрын

    Is there any Indian here🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

  • @GrowthMindsetChannel
    @GrowthMindsetChannel Жыл бұрын

    "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." ~ Marcus Aurelius 🙏😊

  • @samratchattopadhyay3057
    @samratchattopadhyay3057 Жыл бұрын

    We have power over our mind, not outside events... realise this & you will find strength

  • @martinesejour3361
    @martinesejour3361 Жыл бұрын

    So simple, yet so profound. The answer was right there. The power of “If-then.”

  • @angelcastaneda9959
    @angelcastaneda9959 Жыл бұрын

    "If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.” -Marcus Aurelius.

  • @titusmkandawire5661
    @titusmkandawire5661 Жыл бұрын

    We use "If - Then" conditional statements in programming and it it a very good basis for making good intuitive programs. I didn't give it much thought as to apply it to all areas of life, this make so much sense.

  • @shresthaditya2950
    @shresthaditya2950 Жыл бұрын

    1:00

  • @cooperlilley7044
    @cooperlilley7044

    Im very grateful for my father. Althoughout my life, he has told me of mind-over-matter. If you want to be happy, then simply be happy, if you want to be angry, sad, confused, or disappointed, then you will be. You are in control of how you react to your surroundings. You cant always control your surroundings, but you can control how you act and react, and influence the world around you. This is one of the hundreds of lessons hes taught me in just the last 18 years. Im not religious, but i hope there is a heaven simply so he can go there when he passes, he deserves it and so much more. I love you dad, ill be better than you, for you ❤️

  • @ChrisCapehart-ng5bq
    @ChrisCapehart-ng5bq

    I love how you take your time to educate your viewers we all strive towards financial stability and a better Life. It is easy to achieve this through the right investment, by living frugally and budgeting. I'm glad I learnt early in life to work hard for financial freedom.

  • @hridaychasat980
    @hridaychasat980 Жыл бұрын

    "One must be able to think clearly rather than to think deeply which can be quite insane"

  • @formidable2368
    @formidable2368 Жыл бұрын

    Life is a circle but you can break the spiral, self awareness is the key to freedom. ❤

  • @yassinesafraoui
    @yassinesafraoui Жыл бұрын

    I guess the hardest part of the process of thinking is in the feedback, how to use it to improve the logical chain that you had to predict the feedback especially when predictions doesn't match reality which is usually the case, I think being able to divide a logical chain into the most elementary blocks that form it is just so hard and it's such a powerful ability, because if you master it's way easier to find out what was wrong with your logical chain.

  • @mindfulnesswithmatt
    @mindfulnesswithmatt Жыл бұрын

    Agreed with the clarity part. Would add the nuance that sometimes clarity entails being lost to arrive at that clarity

  • @leon2385
    @leon2385 Жыл бұрын

    Love this video! Thank you for giving a quick summary that can be used in our live.

  • @maks_st
    @maks_st Жыл бұрын

    Love the new animation! And the quality of your content, i.e. thoughts, is top notch as usual.

  • @malikpilo
    @malikpilo Жыл бұрын

    Clear thinking will make your actions more accurate and precise which will make your learning potential high. Foggy ideas will let you wonder what was wrong, and you'll only keep assuming and lost in thought with no way to improve.

  • @mohammedelhaddany8787
    @mohammedelhaddany8787

    i just think that his voice is very calming and it really help with capturing every word and letting it dive in our conscious

  • @kiloocal8763
    @kiloocal8763 Жыл бұрын

    This is going to help me a lot! I like to think deeply and solve problems from many angles. But the process is almost always unorganized. That is because I do not have confidence in my mini conclusions. Boiling it down from an if then statements gives me that confidence since the if statement serves as a reason of what ever follows.

  • @MajinSayon
    @MajinSayon Жыл бұрын

    People are too comfortable with using lies, especially with lying to themselves. Hence no clear thought or logic nowadays. Just try to look at how many lies you can spot in a day (commercials, other people's I-statements, promises, political speeches, etc.) We are drowning in lies. Our thinking patterns are messed up, faulty, dysfunctional. Question the seeming truth behind everything.

  • @eliasmelesse1715
    @eliasmelesse1715

    "A clear thought leads to clear and intentional action" you got me on that one!