Most began as suggestions from other parties which cut across my usual thinking ruts and opened up new side routes.
Maybe as a player you get into a rut, thinking you're going to get a certain amount of minutes every game no matter what.
The examples are important because I really want to stop thinking about funks, ruts, and plateaus.
You soon just get in a rut of thinking, "well, this is who I am and I'm not going to progress to much more".
"Mind your manners!" "Use your wits!" "Wake up!" and other such heady exclamations remind us that we often serve as evolution's handmaidens, reacting rather than thinking, following a well-trodden rut rather than scything a new path through the undergrowth, wanting for little but craving nonstop.
If the everyday home scene has you thinking that you are in a rut, go out to eat, take in a movie, go to a dance club, take a nature hike, see a live performance, etc. for a change.
A great big smile will momentarily trick your mind into thinking more positively, helping pull you out of a rut.
How many people lead their daily lives thinking, "Oh, how did I ever get stuck in this rut?" More importantly, how many others wake up every day thinking, "Oh crap, not this job again!
The route is a rut carved by all-male fellowship in sacred learning, privileging masculinity in thinking about closeness to Divinity and mostly missing the kind of intellectual encounter with representatives of another gender - the fringe, so to speak, that is half of humankind - which might challenge the tendency.
They need a "big push" to get them out of a rut and onto the sunlit uplands.In my experience, this way of thinking about things irritates many non-economists, who would rather have an animated fight over political profundities than discuss whether the world is quadratic or cubic.
