These four modes of thinking embody four different gateways for connecting to the world: habitual thought (downloading), rational thought (seeing), empathic thought (sensing), and generative thought (presencing).
Once, however, the phenomenological perspective discloses our habitual engagement with the world, it also becomes clear that we are not simply in the world, in this very spatio-temporal location.
The result is a juxtaposition, in the reader's mind, of his habitual image of the world in which he moves and its absurd reflection in the satirist's distorting mirror.
Once more, we may be present at a time of creation, a time for useful hints, a time if not of order then of new responses to the world's habitual disorder.That is, again, a rather grandiloquent way to describe things.
For many leaders within the social enterprise movement, shifting from a habitual focus on the external world to a broader focus that also includes the inner world is a reorientation.
It inflects your perception of the world and your habitual responses to it.
Step Two: Check Your Emotion Radar We all have emotion radars: habitual ways of scanning the world for clues about what's happening to and around us.
Now that school is over for me, all my habitual ways of looking at the world fall away as well.
"For Nabokov, butterflies helped shape 'a habitual way of looking at the world,' " Richard Conniff said here in 2000.
These are habitual ways of responding to the world that activate the sort of lower-level systems that we've been talking about.
Everything remains stable in the driver's world until Eddie, a habitual oversleeper on his route, makes a date with a girl (named, with mock portent, "Happiness") and, as always, misses his bus.
