How To Do Philosophy In Two Sentences
Learning how to think
really means
learning how to exercise some control
over how and what
you think.It means
being conscious and aware enough,
to choose what
to pay attention to,
and to choose how
you construct meaning
from experience.
–excerpt, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life, by David Foster Wallace
These two sentences sum up the matter. Wallace further comments:
If you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
