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When is better to think without words? - by Henrik Karlsson

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Curious: is there anyone who likes the unpolished stuff I post on Notes more than the essays on the newsletter? (I mean sort of on average. I get that some are better and some are worse. Also, I’m probably not going to change anything about how I write based on this; I’m just curious how it is to read very polished vs very unpolished thoughts.) Integrity comes from the Latin "integer," meaning whole or complete. A person with integrity is "whole" in the sense that their words, actions, and values are unified rather than fragmented or contradictory. They understand themselves; they have integrated the warring parts of themselves; and they respect and act on the values that their parts can agree upon. That thing were we fail to hear what someone and says, “What?” and then a second later, we hear what it was they said—it is bit of reminder that it takes a little while for our brains to finish processing what we hear, so its worth slowing down a bit before answering. Once we start talking,

Portrait of a Man with Glasses I, Francis Bacon, 1963 This essay can be read as a complement to last year’s “How to think in writing.” Thoughts die the moment they are embodied in words. —Schopenhauer In the 1940s, when the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard asked good mathematicians how they came up with solutions to hard problems, they nearly universally answered that they didn’t think in words; neither did they think in images or equations. Rather, what passed through the mathematicians as they struggled with problems were such things as vibrations in their hands, nonsense words in…

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