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"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" (Dostoeveky)
People love to meet others with the same interests as them. Most of the time, I love to talk and discuss my favourite books and their characters, but there are selected ones. The reason is that book reading can sometimes kill people's ability to think on their own.
In this world, every source you see is just a tool to help you find your own path and shape ideas according to your own thoughts and experiences. According to people in my country, a person is a critical thinker just because they give references for whatever they talk about. But if I give you references from ten books saying the earth is flat, would you believe it? Imagine asking someone what they think love is, and they start quoting Khaled Hosseini or Paulo Coelho. Ask them about loneliness, and they start quoting Sylvia Plath and Franz Kafka. Imagine asking someone, based on their experience, what they think about life, and they start quoting Dostoevsky and start quoting Nietzsche.
I get it; you are inspired by some authors and love them, but I asked what YOU think about it. Where are you in all of it? Don’t you have any personal experiences? Have you not been living for that long, watching, hearing, and experiencing? If I wanted to know someone else's point of view, I know where to go, but where to go when I need the answer from your perspective? I know most people would say they don’t know how to articulate their words. The thing is, no one knows; we just try, and the least someone would expect from you is to at least try. I am not against using references to better explain what you mean, but not just putting words to words or translating the writer's quote.
Carl Jung did a lot of work on the difference between critical thinking and layman's thinking. He once wrote, “Thank God I am Jung and not a Jungian.” So, try finding your own way, words.
Extract from Heart of Production's Post.
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