The Patience to Think a Thought to Its End

Thinking a thought to its end is harder than it sounds. At some point it turns uncomfortable, ambiguous, slow — and that is usually where we stop.

Where It Hurts, It Gets Interesting

The most interesting part of a thought often lies past the first exhaustion. Those who go on from there not rarely find the opposite of what they began with.

Slow thinking is not a luxury. It is the condition for not escaping ourselves.