The great irony is that what passes for “thinking” is the exact opposite of thinking. The problem is the vocabulary. All our lives we have been told we are thinking when we are merely regurgitating back some rote facts of history or numbers that were drilled into us in school.

Sadly we teach our children at a very young age to stop “thinking” Real “thinking” which is creative is twisted into not thinking. The true genius that evolves from “not thinking” or daydreaming or doodling the stuff that genius is made of is punished.

Do you think Steve Jobs invented the Apple the Lisa the Iphone while memorizing multiplication tables or while what we would, or your first grade teacher would punish you for aka daydreaming.

In fact some of the greatest minds and inventions of the world were all created by those who dropped out of school. Maybe there is a correlation here that is causation.

Well here are a few that dropped out of school, Edison, Wright brothers, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michal Dell, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerberg. And a few more for you; John D Rockefeller, Walt Disney, Princess Diana, George Burns, Colonel Sanders, Charles Dickens, Elton John, Ray Kroc, Harry Houdini, Ringo Starr, Richard Branson to name a few.

I am starting to think my only mistake was going to school. But truth be told school rewards non thinking, rote learning (regurgitating facts and figures) and punishes the daydreamers the inventors. Perhaps after a dozen or 16 years of getting beat up for allowing your mind to create something never created before and rewarded for stupidly repeating what a parrot could do, all the creativity has literally been punished out of you.

Thank god I still have a slightly rebellious streak

Anyway I am proposing that you get out of your “head” and into you life in a more meaningful way. Listen to those that you care enough to listen to, with all your heart. Notice the places you take the time to be in, as a new person that has never been there before. Try to do everything differently. Think new thoughts change everything.

It could be the most rewarding experience of your life. Drop those “rote” thoughts you had yesterday and countless days before. Try to experience your life, appreciate your life.

Perhaps that is why gratitude works. Think about it. To notice all the things you take for granted and actually be thankful for them is literally another path to the same place. You have to notice things to be thankful for them. Whether its your body, or your surroundings take the time to notice. I tried to articulate this idea in a video as well. Which is a bit different. Enjoy. And live your life differently. “Be” in your life dont just walk the same paths with the same thoughts looking and thinking the same things. Heck thats why AI was invented. If that is all you are doing then of course you can be replaced with AI. “Living” is a lot more rich than merely repeating yesterday today and tomorrow.