Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached and empty... Our thought should be in relation to all particular and already formulated thoughts, as man on a mountain who, as he looks forward, sees also below him, without actually looking at them, a great many forests and plains.
A bright spot amid the gloom is Roni, a sexually precocious sixteen-year-old whose apparent role as the book's mature and soulful center is undermined by a naïve obsession with "Last Tango in Paris" and a tendency to formulate thoughts like "It was better to die than to see your parents cry".
I cannot mistake X for Y unless I am able to formulate thoughts about X and Y.
During preadolescence children start to give attention to the future, to formulate thoughts, and to wonder about what they want.
But I will not be able to formulate thoughts about X and Y unless I am acquainted with X and Y. Being acquainted with X and Y means knowing X and Y; and anyone who knows X and Y will not mistake them for each other.
I started telling people I didn't care she was dead, and it was true: My brain was diminishing what it no longer had, and after about a year made room to formulate thoughts not involving her.
Whether I'm delivering Calculus in 20 Minutes, addressing the World Bank or Microsoft, or serving Southwestern University as president, I continuously encourage and challenge those around me to have the confidence to search more deeply and formulate thought-provoking questions.
Writers who are concerned about others' opinions can prevent themselves from being honest with their article(s), prevent unique work(s) from being published and inhibit their ability to formulate thoughts (e.g., writer's block).
THOUGHTZZZZEE -- Who needs "Yahtzee" when you can noisily rattle six dice in a little jar (simultaneously giving yourself a migraine) just to eventually spill them out on the table to formulate thoughts that are so fleeting in your own head, you usually can't remember them in time to vocalize, write or act them out?
First, CBT largely consists of teaching children to become conscious of their negative thoughts, to evaluate these thoughts, and eventually to challenge them and formulate thoughts that are more accurate.
Badcock and Crespi contrast two parts of the brain: the neocortex, which is responsible for 'mentalistic cognition' and which enables children to develop a ToM, to make decisions, to formulate thoughts and believes, etc.
