Over time, this constant onslaught of Facebook updates, Twitter alerts and other low-value information robs us of our ability to devote time to more attentive types of thinking that give us richness in our intellectual lives.
Do you have new ideas, better ideas, a different way of thinking about things or a richness of experience that will impact your new environment?
For them, not only is the richness of North America staggering, but also its very existence represents a challenge to lifelong ways of thinking.
Richness and redundancy enabling the natural selection of evolving biological systems make their analysis difficult and call for new methods and ways of thinking.
She is capable of thinking.
"We plan to develop nine humanities labs over the course of the grant, and we believe this will create innovative and flexible educational pathways that will expose more Duke students to the richness of humanistic thinking and its exciting research possibilities," said Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities.
Fire and Memory reveals the richness of Fernandez-Galiano's thinking and the breadth of his learning.
In the context of innovation, SxSW succeeds because it provides richness and texture: musicians thinking about marketing technology for YouTube, athletes making music and film, technologists invading sports performance, and much more.
A distinction is sometimes made between convergent thinking (the analytic reasoning measured by intelligence tests) and divergent thinking (exemplified by a richness of ideas and originality of thought).
This kind of thinking, even by credible academics, is responsible for hollowing out our public schools of creativity, critical thinking, and grounding in the richness of students' experiences and local communities.
