The Internal Monologue

Too Busy to Create Thinking Time Let's start with a hard fact. If you don't think and choose to be ignorant, you will be misinformed and miseducated. You will learn things that add no value to your life.   This monologue is some sort of an extension of a social aspect of the " Never stop learning " monologue. Learning requires one to be humble and have humility. This is the basis of a thinking mind. If you refuse to learn or be corrected without being offended, you will be ignorant of your ignorance and this may make you an angry and violent person, and every question posed to you will sound like a personal attack. This definitely impedes any form of thinking.   Thinking is a special quality that humans have exploited for millennia. Given our weak physical qualities when compared to other beasts, no wonder we had a very low life expectancy of less than 30 years. Our capacity to think (Outside the box) has made us special, including enhancing our ability to strike from...

Time - The Ultimate Currency It is much more than the clock on the wall or your wrist or smartphone. Just like many other things in life, we understand time differently. Different cultures and religions around the world have different philosophies about time. We have "African time", "Asian time", etc. Others see it as eternal, while others see it as limited. Some don't even celebrate birthdays because it reminds them of the existence of the death date. Let's do a bit of time maths. The life expectancy in South Africa is 65 yrs, meaning you have roughly 24 000 days to live or 570 000 hours. So if you are 25yrs old, you have already spent your 219 000 hours (38%), they are gone, and you'll never ever get them back. Of course, these numbers are very rough estimates, but they bring about a new perspective and sensitivity. Time is the ultimate currency. Everything else that I know in life can be recovered and/or stored for future use; time lost is lost foreve...