Sentence examples for unproductive thinking from inspiring English sources

Give it a few more listens and I may even grow to appreciate Strange and Unproductive Thinking, an epic, unabridged hymn to the joys of transcendental meditation.

Try to remember the following when you fall into patterns of unproductive thinking or rumination about past deeds.

Don't get caught up thinking about how productive or unproductive you are being in the moment, but later do reflect on how well you stayed focused, how much you stuck to your plan, how accurate your schedule timing was.

Efforts to avoid or suppress thinking anxious thoughts are most likely to be unproductive and backfire.

But he said that at this point, you have a choice: you can judge the person who has wounded you by thinking such thoughts as, "he's not a very good person", or "I didn't deserve that", which is unproductive and not helpful.

"Is this a productive or an unproductive worry?" I think.

Our previous, perhaps unproductive, habits of negative thinking need not be forever.

That sort of thinking is backwards, unproductive and not smart.

But this thinking is silly, and unproductive.

Multiple-choice testing (often considered a practical requirement for a large lecture course) shapes students' study habits in unproductive ways and interferes with critical thinking (Stanger-Hall, 2012).

This style of education actually discourages the asking of pertinent questions and implies that critical thinking is burdensome, irrelevant, and unproductive because questioning and critical thinking do not help a student to correctly answer test questions.