Idea 86: Knowing your mind
When your mind is thinking to some purpose, there are three meta-functions or families of mental skills at play: analyzing, synthesizing and valuing:
- Analyzing is essentially separating, dissecting or taking things apart to see what they are made of.
- Synthesizing is essentially putting things together, assembling, joining up.
- Valuing is essentially assessing the worth of something according to some scale of reference.
When we think we are continually switching from one ‘musical key’ of thinking to another, though we are seldom aware of doing so.
The human mind can think purposively on different levels of consciousness. Quite a lot of analyzing, synthesizing and valuing is done at a subliminal or less than conscious ...
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