#original thinking

Original Thinking Isn’t Lost—It’s Avoided

I see it in classrooms. But it doesn’t stop there.

There’s a quiet shift happening— a hesitation to think independently, a tendency to follow what’s already been done, a comfort in repeating instead of creating.

And it’s not confined to education.

It shows up in how we learn. In how we work. In what we share. In what we choose to believe.

Original thinking asks something of us. Effort. Risk. Uncertainty.

It asks us to stand on our own ideas before anyone else affirms them.

And too often, that’s the very step people avoid.

So the question isn’t just for students— it’s for all of us:

Are we thinking— or are we just repeating?

  (Photograph by @felipepelaquim via Unsplash) As regular readers of this blog will know, I have an interest in Artificial Intelligence and its ability to mine facts and opinions… largely because it is interesting how misinformation spreads and how Chinese Whispers result in cumulative errors. Last Friday (5th January) was the late comedian Malcolm Hardee’s birthday. He was born in 1950. He died…

What Original truly signifies is a connection to the Origin, the source of life, the master intelligence that some may call God or the Divine Creator. Thus the Origin is beyond time or place, and there is no original thought as in having an ownership— because all intelligence plays, exists and expands; it is more a matter of remembering than inventing. And remembering happens whenever a soul is connected and conscious of the Origin.