Comments on: Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat! https://inspire99.com/only-the-guy-who-isnt-rowing-has-time-to-rock-the-boat-quotes-101/ Startup and Motivation Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Vinay Nagaraju https://inspire99.com/only-the-guy-who-isnt-rowing-has-time-to-rock-the-boat-quotes-101/#comment-13978 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:52:57 +0000 https://inspire99.com/?p=12794#comment-13978 In reply to Jayasurya Pathapati.

Good to hear from you Jayasurya. I agree – I think it is a really tough one to control all the dimensions our mind goes in. At the same time when we know some of these can be distractions it can be really hard to appreciate them.

I do realise though in the process of being disciplined we end up being a bit hard on ourselves and not appreciating the different dimensions of thought our mind can get into. I suppose this discussion was perhaps a way to question that and understand
– why am I thinking like this
– what is the use I get in this approach?
– how can I make this benefit me?

Granted these questions are perhaps very difficult to develop as second nature but they sure can make a tremendous difference to our approach

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By: Jayasurya Pathapati https://inspire99.com/only-the-guy-who-isnt-rowing-has-time-to-rock-the-boat-quotes-101/#comment-13975 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:16:20 +0000 https://inspire99.com/?p=12794#comment-13975 I have observed that about 90% of the time we have thoughts about most random things. Very few of them are useful or insightful for our being. The more attention we pay to such thoughts the more complicated it gets and we end up running around in circles. If we pay attention to frivolous things, over analysing, brooding, or regretting , we end up rocking the boat. For me, the bad “boat rockers” are the above three.

As you said, sometimes it’s good to rock the boat by questioning our approach, in fact that’s absolutely necessary. Easier said than done but questioning the most obvious sometimes offers great insights. How else would we know our mistakes?

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